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A feminist companion to Shakespeare / edited by Dympna Callaghan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Political and social views.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- England.
- History.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 384 pages ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Shakespeare
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
- Summary:
- The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken by the all-woman team of contributors to A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. These eminent scholars address such issues vital to feminist inquiry as race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, and the advent of capitalism. In a refreshing departure from the uncertainties of deconstruction and the inscrutabilities of new historicism, which have beaten a retreat from intervention criticism, this volume suffers no uncertainty about its political priorities.
- Contents:
- The ladies Shakespeare / Juliet Fleming
- Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare critic / Katherine M. Romack
- Misogyny is everywhere / Phyllis Rackin
- Feminist editing and the body of the text / Laurie E. Maguire
- Made to write 'whore' upon?": male and female use of the word "whore" in Shakespeare's canon / Kay Stanton
- "A word, sweet Lucrece": confession, feminism, and the rape of Lucrece / Margo Hendricks
- Gender, class and the ideology of Comic form: Much ado about nothing and Twelfth Night / Mihoko Suzuki
- Gendered "gifts" in Shakespeare's Belmont: the economies of exchange in early modern England / Jyotsna G. Singh
- The great Indian vanishing trick: colonialism, property, and the family in A midsummer night's dream / Ania Loomba
- Black ram, white ewe: Shakespeare, race and women / Joyce Green MacDonald
- Sycorax in Algiers: cultural politics and gynecology in early modern England / Rachana Sachdev
- Black and white, and dread all over: the Shakespeare theater's "photonegative" Othello and the body of Desdemona / Denise Albanese
- Women and boys playing Shakespeare / Juliet Dusinberre
- Mutant scenes and "minor" conflicts in Richard II / Molly Smith
- Lovesickness, gender, and subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As you like it / Carol Thomas Neely
- ... in the lesbian void: woman-woman eroticism in Shakespeare's plays / Theodora A. Jankowski
- Duncan's corpse / Susan Zimmerman
- Others and lovers in The merchant of Venice / M. Lindsay Kaplan
- Between idolatry and astrology: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet / Philippa Berry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631208062
- OCLC:
- 42771534
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