A smart, provocative, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, obsession, and kink

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Love. It’s timeless, sublime, tricky, sometimes painful, and hard to understand-just like a certain English playwright we all know. In Sex with Shakespeare, Jillian Keenan tells the story of how the Bard’s plays helped her embrace her unusual sexual identity and find a love story of her own.

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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 spring-board, the book explores the many facets of love and sexuality-from desire and communication to fetish and fantasy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Keenan unmasks Helena as a sexual masochist-like Jillian herself. In Macbeth, she examines criminalized sexual identities and the dark side of \