The Shakespearean unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Post-Freudian and post-Foucauldian readings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream assume that the play celebrates the freeing-up of female sexual desire from neurotic inhibitions or disciplinary norms. But this is incompatible with what we know historically about 16th-century society’s investment in female c...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal article |
| Published: |
British Academy
2016
|