How did people in Shakespeare’s era think about sex and sexuality, and what similarities do they share with our own contemporary sexual identities?
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“A Shakespearean History of Sexuality” will examine how the Renaissance theater portrayed erotic desire in all its complexity, while also tracing the profound historical differences between the sex lives of Shakespeare’s characters and contemporary sexual identities.
Melissa Sanchez is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches and publishes on Shakespeare, feminism, queer theory, and sexuality in the English Renaissance.
This talk is free and open to all. Please register below.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
11:00 a.m. PST
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This event is part of Shakespeare’s First Folio: 1623–2023, a public humanities project staged by Portland State University and other regional arts organizations from September 2023 through May 2024.