Sex with Shakespeare

A provocative moving kinky and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare love obsession and spanking. When it came to understanding love a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her - until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare''s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare 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. Four hundred years after Shakespeare''s death Keenan''s smart and passionate memoir brings new life to his work. With 14 of his plays as a springboard she 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 privacy. The Taming of the Shrew goes inside the secret world of bondage domination and sadomasochism while King Lear exposes the ill-fated king as a possible sexual predator. Moving through the canon Keenan makes it abundantly clear that literature is a conversation. In Sex with Shakespeare words are love. As Keenan wanders the world in search of connection from desert dictatorships to urban islands to disputed territories Shakespeare goes with her - and provokes complex surprising and wildly important conversations about sexuality consent and the secrets that simmer beneath our surfaces.