Butler, Judith. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution.”
Literary Theory: An Anthology
, ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 900-911.
The study discusses how gender is a neurotic imitation, a desire on the part of women to be men. The author also argues that gender identity is formed as an imitation of the norm or of an ideal.
Faucault, Michel. “The History of Sexuality,”
Literary Theory: An Anthology
, ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 893-899.
It is an interesting study of how sexuality has been perceived in the course of the centuries.
Rubin, Gayle. “Sexual Transformation,”
Literary Theory: An Anthology
, ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 889-891.
The study provides an account of how the lives of gays and lesbians have changed over the past several centuries as the western culture moved from intolerance to tolerance regarding homosexuality.
Halberstam, Judith. “Female Masculinity,”
Literary Theory: An Anthology
, ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, 935-943.
The essay discusses the cultural forms of gender multiplicity, explores different gender possibilities, and the manifold formulations that gender performances can assume.
Shakespeare, William.
Macbeth.
Ed. B. Mowat, P. Werstine. New York: Washington Square Press, 1992.
The unabridged text of the tragedy contains an interesting introduction about Shakespeare’s language, life, theater, and plays published during the playwright’s lifetime.
Shakespeare, William.
The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: Penguin, 1998.
The book contains the unabridged text with an overview of Shakespeare, a revised bibliography, and very interesting critical essays.