Shakespeare and the nature of women / Juliet Dusinberre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dusinberre, Juliet.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Women--England--Social conditions.

Women.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xlix, 329 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Summary:

SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy. Dusinberre claims that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated.SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the Second Edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-317) and index.

ISBN:

0312159722

0312159730

OCLC:

33443735