Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, But More with Love Paperback - 2017
by Jillian Keenan
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A smart, provocative, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, obsession, and kink
Love. It's timeless, sublime, tricky, sometimes painful, and hard to understand--just like a certain English playwright we all know. In Sex with Shakespeare, Jillian Keenan tells the story of how the Bard's plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own.
Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, Keenan's smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With fourteen of his plays as a spring-board, the book explores the many facets of love and sexuality--from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist--like Jillian herself. In Macbeth, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the dark side of "privacy." The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage, domination, and sadomasochism, while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Moving through the canon, Keenan makes it abundantly clear that literature is a conversation. In Sex with Shakespeare, words are love.
As Keenan wanders the world in search of connection, from desert dictatorships to urban islands to disputed territories, Shakespeare goes with her--and provokes complex, surprising, and wildly important conversations about sexuality, consent, and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces.
Advance Praise for Sex with Shakespeare
"Calling this book brave is an understatement. We often talk about other people's kinks, but rarely does someone open up about their own kinks--and really own their kinks--as fearlessly as Jillian Keenan does in her moving and funny memoir. This book will help people, and this book will entertain people. And Keenan's original takes on Shakespeare are just as fascinating and insightful as her takes on sex, lust, and love. Fans (kinky or not) of Shakespeare will love reading this book, and anyone directing Shakespeare should be required to read it."--Dan Savage, columnist, "Savage Love," and author most recently of American Savage
"Keenan's intimate conversations with Shakespeare offer new and often startling insights into his plays. They are also deeply moving, and deeply courageous, challenging us to rethink sexuality in fundamental ways."--Ania Loomba, Ph.D., Catherine Bryson Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania and author of Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism
"Visceral, funny, and perceptive, this startling and very personal take on Shakespeare is genuinely revealing--not only about the author, but even more about the plays. Keenan notices and responds to things that criticism on the whole ignores. An enjoyable and impressive book."--Stephen Orgel, Ph.D., Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University and author of Imagining Shakespeare
"Keenan serves up a smart, sexy cocktail of a memoir that is one part spanking fetish, another part Shakespeare, and goes down like a dirty martini that leaves the reader both shaken and stirred."--Ian Kerner, Ph.D., author of She Comes First
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- Title Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, But More with Love
- Author Jillian Keenan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company
- Date 2017
- ISBN 9780062378729 / 0062378724
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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