title: Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
author:  Jillian Keenan 
description: An English majors dream!You may have studied Shakespeare in high school, but its almost guaranteed that your literary analysis wasnt anything like thisThe connection to Shakespeare is a fascinating foil for Keenans life[Her] writing is clear, relatable, and steady, even when conveying painful events in her past. (Library Journal <strong>(starred review)</strong>)<br /><br />Visceral, funny, and perceptive, this startling and very personal take on Shakespeare is genuinely revealingnot only about the author, but even more about the plays. Keenan notices and responds to things that criticism on the whole ignores. An enjoyable and impressive book. (Stephen Orgel, Ph.D., Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University and author of <i>Imagining Shakespeare</i>)<br /><br />Moving and funnyKeenans original takes on Shakespeare are just as fascinating and insightful as her takes on sex, lust, and love. Fans (kinky or not) of Shakespeare will love reading this book, and anyone directing Shakespeare should be required to read it. (Dan Savage, columnist, Savage Love, and author most recently of <i>American Savage</i>)<br /><br />Explicit and often harrowingKeenan writes, she says, so others like her will not have to feel aloneBy demonstrating the elasticity with which sexual undertones in Shakespeare can be read, she makes a case for a more expansive definition of sexual identity. (Booklist)<br /><br />Keenans excellent writing and humor make this a book enjoyable for fetishists and vanillas alike especially if you like Shakespeare A powerful tool in the growing arsenal of identity acceptanceThis is an important book to have been written and to be read. (AVclub.com)<br /><br />Keenans intimate conversations with Shakespeare offer new and often startling insights into his plays. They are also deeply moving, and deeply courageous, challenging us to rethink sexuality in fundamental ways. (Ania Loomba, Ph.D., Catherine Bryson Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, and author of <i>Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism</i>)<br /><br />Keenan serves up a smart, sexy cocktail of a memoir that is one part spanking fetish, another part Shakespeare, and goes down like a dirty martini that leaves the reader both shaken and stirred. (Ian Kerner, Ph.D., author of <i>She Comes First</i>)<br /><br />A raunchy memoir revealing a visceral connection to the Bard. (Kirkus)<br /><br />Jillian Keenan reveals how the revered playwright helped her come to terms with her sexual identity. Full of humor, her memoir explores the lessons she learned from the Bard, ranging from fetish to communication to love. (Bustle.com)<br /><br />Insightful and refreshingKeenans mix of fearless and emotionally resonant personal revelations, cheeky (no pun intended) good humor, and deep literary knowledge make <i>Sex with Shakespeare</i> highly original and engaging. (Karla Kane, <i>Bitch Media</i>)
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  ## Lily Bard 01 - Shakespeare's Landlord
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Charlaine Harris
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Charlaine Harris
  
  
  ## Lily Bard 01 - Shakespeare's Landlord
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For all my fellow inmates_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _in Doctor Than's House of Pain:_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _especially Martha, John, and Wayne_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I gathered myself, my bare feet gripping the wooden floor, my thigh muscles
  braced for the attack. I stepped forward on the ball of my left foot, pivoting
  as I moved, and my right leg swung up, bent at the knee. My foot lashed out,
  returned instantly. The black Everlast punching bag rocked on its chain.
  
  
  My right foot touched down, and I pivoted lightly on the ball of that foot, my
  body oriented this time facing the bag. My left leg came forward to deliver a
  longer, harder, thrusting mae geri. I continued the kicking, the pivoting,
  alternating the side kicks with the front kicks, practicing my weaker ba