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OverviewAre Shakespeare’s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture’s ideas of motherhood and of women’s work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Marianne Novy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) , Evelyn Gajowski (University of San Francisco USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: The Arden Shakespeare Weight: 0.242kg ISBN: 9781472567062ISBN 10: 1472567064 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Likeness and Difference 3. Desire 4. Marriage 5. Motherhood 6. Language 7. Between Women 8. Work Bibliography IndexReviewsUsing close reading, social context, and some intriguing nuggets of performance history, Novy's book is as illuminating as it is readable. It is also rendered all the more urgent by her inclusion of current gender issues. * Times Literary Supplement * In an age where locker room talk has become mainstream political discourse, these feminist books by female scholars are all the more urgent. They show us both where misogynistic discourse emerges from, and where we might go from there. * Times Literary Supplement * Author InformationMarianne Novy is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and has been teaching Shakespeare from a feminist perspective there since 1971. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |