Getting the Ick
John Kerrigan: Consent in Shakespeare, 14 December 2023
Shakespeare on Consent
by Amanda Bailey.
Routledge, 197 pp., £17.99, March,978 0 367 18453 7 Show More
by Amanda Bailey.
Routledge, 197 pp., £17.99, March,
Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook
edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman.
Cambridge, 421 pp., £95, January,978 1 108 84340 9 Show More
edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman.
Cambridge, 421 pp., £95, January,
Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion
by Bradley J. Irish.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £75, March,978 1 350 21398 2 Show More
by Bradley J. Irish.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £75, March,
“... another party if it is to be more than assent. It happens within the heart (according to King John) but becomes consent only when it is declared. The word could mean, as now, agreement to a proposal, but Shakespeare’s plays reflect social conditions in which consent between lovers depends on the consent given by friends and family. As Petruchio tells ... ”