by Jinny Webber | Jul 15, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“Bedtrick: sex with a partner who pretends to be someone else.” [Introduction, Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, University of Chicago, 2000.] Two of Shakespeare’s plays, Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well, make use of the plot...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 13, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
My novel Bedtrick deals with marriage, both in Shakespeare’s plays and in the lives of the characters. An enlightening book on the subject is Daniel Swift’s Shakespeare’s Common Prayers, particularly the two chapters on the solemnization of matrimony. Swift argues...
