Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - BOOK PB - Routledge--Taylor & Francis SE - xii + 197 CY - Abingdon and New York ID - aaao1014 T1 - Shakespeare and Consent AU - Bailey, Amanda PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Considers how to read Shakespeare in a post #MeToo world, contending that "the idea of consent as a universal prerogative and neutral instrument is a lie." Links readings of Shakespeare's works with twentieth- and twenty-first century events. Focuses on Rape of Lucrece and sexual violence; incapacity in Midsummer Night's Dream; sex and love in Romeo and Juliet and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, produced by Harvey Weinstein (q.v.); and Hamlet's depiction of "procrastination as politics." ER -