Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness: The Assay Toward Androgyny

Author: Robert Kimbrough
Title: Shakespeare and the Art of Humankindness: The Assay Toward Androgyny
Publication: Humanities Press, 1990

Description: Paperback. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. (5.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [6], author's notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. xvi, 272 pp.

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Defining androgyny as fully realized humanity, or humankindness, Robert Kimbrough first addresses myths of androgyny and locates the androgynous vision in sixteenth-century thought. Then, ranging widely throughout the Shakespearean canon,
Kimbrough discusses the androgynous stirrings of youth found in the boy-girl disguises of the comedies, including As You Like It and Twelfth Night, and the attempts of more mature protagonists to cross gender barriers in Julius Caesar, Othello, and especially Macbeth. Finally, Kimbrough explores Shakespeare's presentation of the problems of parenthood and old age in King Lear, and concludes with a discussion of The Tempest as a play of final androgynous synthesis in humankindness.

Seller ID: 200698

Subject: Gender and Sexuality , Literature



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