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Description - Shakespeare and Queer Studies by Mario DiGangi

Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches to Shakespeare's plays and poems. Addressing the strategies and stakes of different modes of queer critique, it encourages readers to develop their own interpretive strategies for reading sexuality and gender in Shakespeare. Mario DiGangi demonstrates how concepts such as queer temporality, reproductive futurism, and
intersectionality can provide new ways of understanding same-sex relations in Shakespeare. At the same time, it avoids some of the ethical and intellectual pitfalls of an insufficiently capacious queer critical
practice by examining the social and political power dynamics of same-sex relationships. Critiques of queer studies from the perspectives of critical race studies, trans studies, and asexuality studies have stressed the limitations of

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