Sex With Shakespeare Av Jillian Keenan

<p><strong>A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking</strong></p><p>When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of <em>The Tempest</em> sent Shakespeare’s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In <em>Sex with Shakespeare, </em>she tells the story of how the Bard’s plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own.</p><p>Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, Keenan’s smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With fourteen of his plays as a springboard, she explores the many facets of love and sexuality—from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In <em>A Midsummer Night</em><em>’s Dream</em>, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist—like Jillian herself. In <em>Macbeth</em>, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the