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Women in the age of Shakespeare / Theresa D. Kemp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemp, Theresa D.
- Series:
- Age of Shakespeare.
- The age of Shakespeare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Women in literature.
- Women--England--History--17th century.
- Women.
- Women--England--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Women--England--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Like the other entries in this fascinating series, Women in the Age of Shakespeare shows the influence of the world William Shakespeare lived in on the worlds he created for the stage, this time by focusing on women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in general and in ShakespeareÕs works in particular.||Women in the Age of Shakespeare explores the ancient and medieval ideas that Shakespeare drew upon in creating his great comedic and tragic heroines. It then looks at how these ideas intersected with the lived experiences of women of ShakespeareÕs time, followed by a close look at the major f
- Contents:
- Women in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Women in Shakespeare's world
- Women in Shakespeare's works
- Shakespearean women in performance
- Scholarship and criticism
- Primary documents.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216037330
- 9786612535093
- 9781282535091
- 1282535099
- 9780313343056
- 0313343055
- OCLC:
- 615628878
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