Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword: Reviewing Shakespeare in the “age of consent” by Francis P. Barclay
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Permission ≠ Consent: Prisoner Exchanged, Affirmative Consent Unchanged in Troilus and Cressida
2. Street Rules in Coriolanus: (S)Mothering and Silenced Love in Coriolanus
3. Ignoble Nobles: Consent in the Age of Pseudo-Chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen
4. Roofied Wood: Drugs and BDSM in Reacquired Patriarchy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. Gold and Girls: Timon’s Attempted Murder by Sex in Athens
6. Silenced Shades: Timing Revolt Against Oppression in The Winter’s Tale
7. Losing to Win: The Peril of Virginity in Pericles, Prince of Tyre
8. Private Discourse in Public Lives: Survival Equals Victory: Julius Caesar
9. Othered Women: A Royal Brat Out-Cleopatra’s Herself in Antony and Cleopatra
10. Symbolic Freedom: The Anglo-Roman Demi-Transition in Cymbeline
11. No Laughing MacGuffin: Domestic Violence in a Carnivalesque of Errors
12. Status Matters. Not! The Inability of Ignobility in Titus Andronicus
Conclusion
Index