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Sceptre has acquired Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh. Seal Press, an imprint of Basic Books, will publish in the US.
Straight Acting is an alternative biography of William Shakespeare viewed through the lens of the queer world of Elizabethan England. Tosh, research fellow and lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, shows how strongly Shakespeare was influenced by queer culture of the time, which permeated all walks of life.
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Sceptre has acquired Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh. Seal Press, an imprint of Basic Books, will publish in the US.
Straight Acting is an alternative biography of William Shakespeare viewed through the lens of the queer world of Elizabethan England. Tosh, research fellow and lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, shows how strongly Shakespeare was influenced by queer culture of the time, which permeated all walks of life.











