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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Keenan, Jillian.     Subjects     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Keenan, Jillian.     Keenan, Jillian -- Sexual behavior.     Sex in literature.     Fetishism (Sexual behavior)     Sadomasochism.     Corporal punishment.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Keenan, Jillian.       by title:      Sex with Shakespeare...       by call number:      306.776 K26s     Search the Web     Keenan, Jillian.     Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.     Keenan, Jillian.     Keenan, Jillian -- Sexual behavior.     Sex in literature.     Fetishism (Sexual behavior)     Sadomasochism.     Corporal punishment.     Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.       MARC Display

Sex with Shakespeare : here's much to do with pain, but more with love / Jillian Keenan. by Keenan, Jillian. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2016] Call #: 306.776 K26s Subjects Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.   Keenan, Jillian.   Keenan, Jillian -- Sexual behavior.   Sex in literature.   Fetishism (Sexual behavior)   Sadomasochism.   Corporal punishment.   Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography. ISBN:  9780062378712 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xii, 334 pages ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographic references (pages 317-322) and index. Contents:  A midsummer night's dream : stand and unfold -- The tempest: were I human -- The winter's tale: an aspect more favorable -- Romeo and Juliet: these violent delights -- The taming of the shrew: rough with love -- Hamlet: nothing, my Lord -- Twelfth night: what should I do -- Love's labor's lost: wonder of the world -- Antony and Cleopatra: here is my space -- Macbeth: double, double -- King Lear: speak -- Othello: beast with two backs -- Cymbeline: what we may be -- As you like it: what you will. Summary:  "When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her - until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first time. She 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 springboard, she 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"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.776 K26s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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