Women and Shakespeare's cuckoldry plays : shifting narratives of marital betrayal / Cristina León Alfar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alfar, Cristina León, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

England.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Criticism and interpretation.

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

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Marriage in literature.

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

Feminism and literature.

History.

Feminism and literature--England--History--17th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

1 Early modern women's narratives of marital betrayal 29

2 "A woman of quick sense": women's agency in Troilus and Cressida and The Merry Wives of Windsor 67

3 "Manhood is melted into curtsies": shifting masculine honor in Much Ado about Nothing 103

4 "An essence that's not seen" or "an odious, damned lie": the ethics of competing narratives in Othello 135

5 "Paper bullets of the brain": revising the cuckoldry play in The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Alfar, Cristina León, 1963- author. Women and Shakespeare's cuckoldry plays

ISBN:

9781472474186

147247418X

OCLC:

958066346