Author: Amanda Bailey, Department of English, University of Maryland - Academia.edu

Contents:

	Preface (p. vii)
	Acknowledgments (p. x)
	Introduction Equity without justice (p. 1)
		Who Gets to Be Me (p. 1)
		Him too, Shakespeare (p. 6)
		The Sex Bureaucracy (p. 8)
		Fictions of Consent (p. 15)
		I am Content (p. 18)
		Notes (p. 24)
	Rape of a nation One (p. 29)
		Unhappy Valley (p. 29)
		The Republican Rape Topos (p. 31)
		Bad Hombres (p. 38)
		White Entitled (p. 43)
		The Republican’s Rape Topos (p. 48)
		Us too? (p. 52)
		Notes (p. 53)
	Stamped by shame Two (p. 57)
		Silence the Shame (p. 57)
		Rudely Stamped (p. 63)
		Stained (p. 66)
		Sticky (p. 71)
		Lucrece, the Survivor (p. 74)
		Hamlet, the Survivor (p. 79)
		Notes (p. 80)
	While you were sleeping Three (p. 84)
		Woke (p. 84)
		Somnophilia (p. 89)
		The Dat Rape Play (p. 95)
		You Have But Slumbered Here (p. 99)
		Coda (p. 100)
		Notes (p. 101)
	I may destroy you Four (p. 105)
		The Bed (p. 107)
		Shakespeare’s Beds (p. 112)
		Bed Tricks (p. 116)
		I Will Destroy You (p. 124)
		Notes (p. 125)
	Make sex great again Five (p. 128)
		#MeToo in Verona (p. 135)
		Hot Sex (p. 137)
		Civil Night (p. 141)
		Killjoys (p. 147)
		Notes (p. 149)
	Weinstein in love Six (p. 153)
		Why We Love (to Hate) Weinstein (p. 153)
		The Romance of Consent (p. 155)
		The Passion Trap (p. 160)
		The Brand is Shakespeare (p. 167)
		Lover’s Vows (p. 171)
		Notes (p. 173)
	Refusal is the first right Coda (p. 176)
		Dissensus (p. 176)
		Whatever(s) (p. 179)
		Consent Not to Be (p. 181)
		Time’s Out (p. 184)
		Notes (p. 186)
	Index (p. 189)

Description: »Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, the topic of consent has come under particular scrutiny. Shakespeare on Consent examines crises of consent on the early modern stage and argues that these dramatizations provide a framework for understanding the intersections of coercion, complicity, resistance, and agency.
Beginning with the premise that the apparatus of consent serves as a lever of entitlement, Amanda Bailey introduces a Shakespeare well aware that liberal selfhood has never been universally available. Bailey brings Shakespeare’s work into conversation with the Penn State Sandusky scandal, the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair, the rise of “somnophilia,” Jordan Peele’s documentary on Lorena Bobbitt, Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Harvey Weinstein’s Shakespeare in Love, amongst others. Bailey considers who is denied access to the apparatus of consent, under what circumstances, and how consent is vitiated by race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and gender.
Shakespeare on Consent is a wake-up call for all implicated in the injurious outcomes of consent and will inspire those wanting to mobilize choice in the service of social and political transformation« (Source: Routledge)

Reviews:
- Amser, Mara I. Shakespeare Quarterly (June 4, 2026). - Full Text: Oxford Academic (Restricted Access)

- Kerrigan John. »Getting the Ick.« London Review of Books 45(24) (December 12, 2023). - Full Text: London Review of Books (Free Access)

- Yarn, Molly G. TLS: Times Literary Supplement No. 6295 (November 24, 2023). - Full Text: Times Literary Supplement (Restricted Access)

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