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Shakespeare on Sex: How Will's Love Life Shaped the Plays and Liberated the World

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“Of special interest.”—Sir Ian McKellen

In Shakespeare on Sex, readers will discover William Shakespeare as they have never seen him before: a rebellious playwright determined to challenge Elizabethan England’s sexual mores and champion the freedom of love. Drawing on the scandal of Shakespeare’s own shotgun wedding after he impregnated twenty-six-year-old Anne Hathaway when he was still a teenage minor in a time and place that prohibited premarital sex, this groundbreaking book reveals how ...