Description |
x, 348 pages ; 24 cm |
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Women language |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 314-335. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The woman's part: female sexuality as power in Shakespeare's plays / Paula S. Berggren -- "Neither mother, wife, nor England's queen": the roles of women in Richard III / Madonne M. Miner -- Shakespeare and the soil of rape / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Comic structure and the humanizing of Kate in The taming of the shrew / John C. Bean -- Those "soft and delicate desires": Much ado and the distrust of women / Janice Hays -- As we like it: how a girl can be smart and still popular / Clara Claiborne Park -- Counsels of gall and grace: intimate conversations between women in Shakespeare's plays / Carole McKewin -- Shakespeare's Cressida: "A kind of self" / Gayle Greene -- "I wooed thee with my sword": Shakespeare's tragic paradigms / Madelon Gohlke -- Coming of age in Verona / Coppélia Kahn -- A heart cleft in twain: the dilemma of Shakespeare's Gerturde / Rebecca Smith -- Women and men in Othello: "What should such a fool / Do with so good a woman?" / Carol Thomas Neely -- Lady Macbeth: "Infirm of purpose" / Joan Larsen Klein -- Shakespeare's female characters as actors and audience / Marianne Novy -- A penchant for Perdita on the eighteenth-century stage / Irene G. Dash -- The Miranda trap: sexism and racism in Shakespeare's Tempest / Lorie Jerrell Leininger -- "O sacred, shadowy, cold, and constant queen": Shakespeare's imperiled and chastening daughters of romance / Charles Frey -- Women and men in Shakespeare: a selective bibliography / Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely. |
Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
16th century |
Subject |
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminist literary criticism. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women. |
Indexed Term |
Drama in English Shakespeare, William Special themes: Women - Critical studies |
Added Author |
Lenz, Carolyn Ruth Swift, 1928-
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Greene, Gayle, 1943-
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Neely, Carol Thomas, 1939-
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Added Title |
Feminist criticism of Shakespeare.
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ISBN |
0252007514 |
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0252010167 (paperback) |
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