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A 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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Callaghan, Dympna (Editor)
Published: John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition /
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 97
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Political and social views.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
1500-1699
Feminism and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Feminism and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Political and social views.
Women and literature.
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access: 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. Gendered "gifts" in Shakespeare's Belmont: the economies of exchange in early modern England -- Part IV. The great Indian vanishing trick / colonialism, property, and the family in A Midsummer Night's Dream: 9. Race and colonialism; 10. Black ram, white ewe: Shakespeare, race, and women; 11. Sycorax in Algiers: cultural politics and gynecology in early modern England; 12. Black and white, and dread all over: the Shakespeare Theatre's "Photonegative" Othello and the body of Desdemona -- Part V. Performing sexuality: 13. Women and boys playing Shakespeare; 15. Lovesickness, gender, and subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As You Like It; 17. Duncan's corpse -- Part VI. Religion: 18. Others and lovers in The Merchant of Venice; 19. Between idolatry and astrology: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet
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. Woman-crafted Shakespeares: appropriation, intermediality, and womanist aesthetics; 29. A thousand voices: performing Ariel.

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