Screen LibraryA feminist companion to Shakespeare.
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition / |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118501221 |
| Summary: |
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118501221 1118501225 1118501268 (cloth) 9781118501269 (cloth) |
| Index Number: | PR2991 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Contents: |
Notes on contributors -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Part I. The history of feminist Shakespeare criticism: 1. The ladies' Shakespeare; 2. Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare critic; 3. Misogyny is everywhere -- Part II. Text and language: 4. Feminist editing and the body of the text; 5. "Made to write 'whore' upon?" Male and female use of the word "whore" in Shakespeare's canon; 6. "A word, sweet Lucrece" confession, feminism, and The Rape of Lucrece -- Part III. Social economies: 7. Gender, class, and the ideology of comic form Much Ado about Nothing and Twelfth Night; 8. Part VII. Character, genre, history: 20. Putting on the destined livery: Isabella, Cressida and our virgin/whore obsession; 21. The virginity dialogue in All's Well That Ends Well: feminism, editing, and adaptation; 22. Competitive mourning and female agency in Richard III; 23. Bearing death in The Winter's Tale; 24. Monarchs who cry: the gendered politics of weeping in the English history play; 25. Shakespeare's women and the crisis of beauty -- Part VIII. Appropriating women, appropriating Shakespeare: 26. Women and land: Henry VIII; 27. Desdemona: Toni Morrison's response to Othello; 28. |