Jillian Keenan. (2016). Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Jillian Keenan. 2016. Sex With Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do With Pain, but More With Love. HarperAudio.

Jillian Keenan, Sex With Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do With Pain, but More With Love. HarperAudio, 2016.

Jillian Keenan. Sex With Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do With Pain, but More With Love. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2016.

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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 fourteen 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.

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     Starred review from June 1, 2016
     

     Interspersed with passages of close literary readings of Shakespeare are revealing descriptions of the author's coming to terms with her sexual identity. Her writing is clear, relatable, and steady, even when conveying painful events. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as a teenager, Keenan only briefly touches on her disease and the childhood sexual abuse she experienced. Instead, she focuses on the meaning of Shakespeare in her life and the Bard's role in her self-discovery. VERDICT Thoroughly enjoyable, not just for the juicy bits of Shakespeare, but also for the sex-positive message. Recommended for anyone working through issues of sexuality and identity. [See Memoir, 2/17/16; ow.ly/Tet6300b88f.]--Rachael Dreyer (RD)

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     With a fetish for being spanked, Keenan sees sex in nearly every Shakespearean play. In her debut memoir, the author admits to being "obsessed with spankings." Her fetish, she writes, "isn't something I do. It's something I am." She has no interest in ferreting out the cause of "this bizarre obsession," finding introspection "exhausting....The psychological and social implications of my inner life were so disturbing to me that I could rarely force myself to confront them." Instead, her sexuality informs her reading of Shakespeare. In The Tempest, for example, she identifies with the wild Caliban. "I longed for Caliban because I longed to uncage myself, and the ravenous sexual terrors in me....I longed for Caliban's ugly honesty and the unselfconsciousness of his impulses." Keenan is captivated by the "erotic potential" of cross-dressing in Twelfth Night, which speaks to her "specific erotic quirks to an absurd degree." Besides offering her take on 14 plays, including Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet (it's about lust, not love, the author insists), King Lear, Othello, and, not surprisingly, The Taming of the Shrew, Keenan provides graphic recountings of her sexual liaisons. In Spain, where she went after dropping out of high school, she met John, who fulfilled her needs repeatedly and energetically, with his bare hand, a belt, and a ruler, with which he paddled her "hard, thirty or forty times in rapid succession" and then, after a short break, 10 more. The author maintains that she could control how much, or how long, the spanking continued. "Kink is more collaborative than it appears," she writes. When she fell in love, she was unsatisfied by sex until she persuaded her lover to spank her. One day, he improvised, spanking her "to the rhythm of iambic pentameter." Reader, she married him. A raunchy memoir revealing a visceral connection to the Bard.

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     Don't be fooled by the title. This memoir is about the very specific fetish of spanking, around which Keenan's sexual identity revolves, and her attempts to understand and embrace it. Still, there is some Shakespeare. First infatuated in high school with Caliban from The Tempest, Keenan devoted much study to the Bard and examines her fetish through the lens of his plays. She has a disarming way of imagining Shakespearean characters as figures she can turn to in a crisis, which pays tribute to the ways people create personal meaning for themselves through literature. And she has many opinions to offer on how sex and sexuality are portrayed by Shakespeare. But this is still a long way from literary criticism; it's an explicit and often harrowing account of her out-of-the-norm sexuality. Keenan writes, she says, so others like her will not have to feel alone. By demonstrating the elasticity with which sexual undertones in Shakespeare can be read, she makes a case for a more expansive definition of sexual identity than society typically offers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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