Consent in Shakespeare

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage this book will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary private and public situations in and around the Mediterranean.

Artemis Preeshl is a Fulbright Senior Theatre Specialist. An International Acting Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe, she has directed and performed in half of Shakespeare's canon. She has taught voice, acting, movement and directing on five continents and on faculty at Loyola University New Orleans and Elon University.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Commodified Cates: Consent, Class, and Agency on the Marriage Market 2 Triangulating The Two Gentlemen: Maids Enable Gender Expression in Love 3 The Merchants of Love: White Privilege Shades Justice 4 Much Ado About Maidens: Women Restore Women to Society 5 Trussed Night: Expressing Gender Preferred, But Not Required, in Agency 6 All's Well on Love's Pilgrimage: Boundary Crossings between the Sheets 7 Measuring Consent: The Consequences of "Yes," "No," and "No, but..." 8 Women Around Othello: Status and the Race Card in Intimate Partner Violence 9 Tempestuous Powers: Gendered Relations Breed Agency in Unceded Land Conclusion Glossary Index