Ophelia, 123, 126–30, 138–39, 152, 155–59
Orantes, Ana, 109, 110
Order for the Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence, in Spain, 110
Orgasm, 71, 101, 224, 306–7
Orgel, Stephen, 101, 112, 132
Orlando, 292–93, 295–96, 306, 309–10
Orsino, 143–44, 148–50, 249–50
Othello, 145, 152, 153–54, 159, 251–53, 259–62, 265, 266–67, 272–73
Ovid, ix, 65
Oxford English Dictionary, 34, 35
Oxford University, 8, 141, 246–47
Paddling, 34. See also Spankings
Pain, 76, 194–95, 260
Dickinson on, 115
endorphins and, 77, 83, 312
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 15, 16
in Romeo and Juliet, 77
threshold, 297, 299
“Painted blind,” 38
Paraphilia, 10
Passion of the Christ, The (movie), 53
Patriarchy, 10–11, 94–95, 223
Pausanias, 22
Peng, 36–38, 79–80, 176, 293–95, 302
Perdita, 51, 60–61, 65, 66
Performative self-awareness, 124
“Pervertibles,” 299
Petruchio, 96–98, 100–101, 112–13
Phaedrus, 22
Phallic language, 83, 236
Philippines, 248–49
Phoenix, Arizona, 227–28
Piano Teacher, The (movie), 38–39
Pillow fights, 18
Pink Dot, 221
Pistol, 250
Plato, 22–23, 162–63
Plays within plays, 96, 97–98
Polixenes, 66
Polonius, 124, 157
Pony play, 40
Portia, 222
Posthumus, 272–73, 274–75, 278–79, 282
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 241–42
Power exchange, in The Tempest, 31–33, 34
“Privacy,” 219–21
Prophecies, 209–13
Prospero, 31–33, 43–45
Puck, 13
Pygmalion, 65
Qaboos bin Said al-Said, 3, 7–8
Rape
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 16, 19–20
in The Tempest, 32
Reader response, 21
“Reeve’s Tale, The” (Chaucer), 83
Regan, 228–30, 234–37, 243
Roderigo, 252–53, 262
Romeo and Juliet, 25, 74–75, 77, 78, 79, 82–83, 89–90, 148, 150–51, 152, 155–59
Rosalind, 154, 292–93, 295–96, 297, 306, 309–10, 311–12
Rosaline, 161, 163–65, 174
Rosencrantz, 124
Rules, introduction of, 63
Rumi, 44
Rwanda, 28
Sabihah, 4–5, 142
Sadism (sadists), 17–18, 79, 292
Sadomasochistic relationships, in popular culture, 38–40
Safe words, 80–81, 104, 221
St. Crispin’s Day speech, 132
Samantha, 276
Same-sex attraction. See Homosexuality
Sami people, 194
Savran, David, 99
School discipline, 258–59
Scold (scoldings), 300
Sebastian, 144
Secretary (movie), 39–40, 251
Self-mutilation, 40, 257
Seville, Spain, 48–59, 61–64, 66–68
Sex and the City (TV show), 39
Sexual attraction. See also Lust
in Romeo and Juliet, 74–75
Sexual consent, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 13, 19–20
Sexual innuendo and wordplay
in Antony and Cleopatra, 192
in Hamlet, 129, 150
in King Lear, 236–37
in Love’s Labor’s Lost, 164–65
in Romeo and Juliet, 82–83
in Twelfth Night, 149–50
Sexual miscegenation, in Othello, 252–53
Shackleton, Ernest, 29
Shakespearean cartography, 8, 60, 246
Shaw, George Bernard, 107, 297
Sheen, Charlie, 120
Showalter, Elaine, 129–30
Singapore, 205–6, 209–15, 217, 219, 221
Singaporean Penal Code, 214
Six Feet Under (TV show), 39
60 Minutes (TV show), 80
Slate, 240, 248
Sly, Christopher, 96, 97
Smiley, Jane, 235
Smith, Bruce, 215
Socrates, 22
Sonnet 18, 216–17
Sonnet 20, 217
Sonnet 44, 206
Sonnet 129, 69–70
Soraya, 150–55
Spader, James, 39–40
Spaniel, 14, 19
Spankings, 8–11, 34–36, 183
author’s accessing porn in Oman Internet café, 4, 7
in author’s childhood, 230–34
author’s love of Shakespeare and, 312
children, 36, 223–24, 225, 238–42
David and, 177–80, 297–307, 308–9
definitions of, 34, 36
Helena and Cymbeline, 283–88
John and, 61–62, 67–68, 70–76, 78–79, 83, 87–88, 93–95, 102–7, 121–22, 124–26
kinds of, 257
misconceptions about sex and, 36, 76–77
Spankophile, 9
Spankos, 9, 10, 293
Spousal battery
in Oman, 156–57
in Spain, 109–11
in The Taming of the Shrew, 95–96, 112–13
Spratly Islands, 249
Stallybrass, Peter, 208–9
Stanford University, 52, 55–56, 80, 113–14, 117–18, 122–23, 130, 140–41, 159–60, 182
Star Wars (movies), 304, 305
Stiller, Ben, 43
Story of O (Réage), 129–30
Stress-relief ritual, 6–7
Stutter, 27–28
“Sub drop,” 83
Subjugation of women, in The Taming of the Shrew, 112–13
Submission (submissives), 10, 36, 63, 77, 94
Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), 144–45, 146–48, 150–59
Superego, 38–39
Surfing, 86–87, 119–20, 137
Swiss Alps, 85–88
“Switch,” 257
Symposium (Plato), 22–23, 162–63
Taming of the Shrew, The, 96–98, 100–101, 107, 112–13
Tanzania, 142
Tardiness, 93–94, 95, 103
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Oman), 4
Tempest, The, 27–28, 31–33, 40–41, 43–45, 161–62
“The more you beat me, I will fawn on you,” 14, 15, 19
Theseus, 13
Thousand Acres, A (Smiley), 235
Thrashing, 34. See also Spankings
Thucydides, 124–26
Titania, 13
Tom, 35–36
Tonal contrasts, 60–61
Touchstone, 293, 295–96
Transvestite female characters, 154
Trigger warnings, vii–viii
Trochees, 170
Trust, 63–64
Twelfth Night, 130–31, 140–44, 148–50, 154, 249–50, 286
Umeboshi rice balls, 28
University of Seville, 49, 52
Utah Shakespeare Festival, 27–28
Valentine’s Day, 170–71
Vanilla, 10
Vanilla sex, 10, 134, 135, 174, 181
Vaughan, Virginia Mason, 252
Villiers, George, 215–16
Viola, 140–41, 143–44, 148–50, 154
Virginity, 81, 127
Wall Street (movie), 120
Wayward, 208–9
Weak ending, 19
Weird, 208–9
Welles, Orson, 35
“Weyard Sisters,” 208–9
Whipping Boy, The (Fleischman), 34
Wife beating. See Spousal battery
Williams, Gordon, 164–65
Winter’s Tale, The, 50
, 51, 56–57, 60, 62, 64–66
Witch, 208
Wordplay, 77
Yamamoto-Wilson, John, 99
Yates, Frances, 145
Zahra al-Hassan, 153–54
Zoolander (movie), 43
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JILLIAN KEENAN holds degrees from Stanford University and has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Slate, Foreign Policy, Playboy, National Geographic, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She lives in New York City.
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