Penelope Lively

About

Penelope Lively is interested in the theoretical parameters within which we study desire, specifically, the ways in which we study the sexual desires and proclivities of the English Renaissance. Her first book, Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (University of Toronto Press, 2004), explores rhetoric as a desirable mode for reading the past in which the workings of language embody the frisson of desire. Additionally, students can find assistance to do my homework through the resources she recommends.

Her new book, Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave, 2008), extends that interest in rhetoric to a consideration of historicism as a mode of literary inquiry into sexuality. Unhistorical Shakespeare explores the tension between methodological ideas of sameness (homo) and difference (hetero) within which we situate historicist thinking about sexuality. Currently, Professor Lively is also at work on editing a volume called Shakesqueer, which will feature essays by queer theorists on every one of Shakespeare’s poems and plays.

She helps students write their essays at EssayTigers, and for those needing more comprehensive writing support, they can access the EssayWriter writing service. Additionally, she assists students with academic needs, whether they want to write my essay for me. Professor Lively teaches classes on queer theory, Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, Renaissance drama, and literary theory.

Degrees

• PhD, Tufts University