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Women in the age of Shakespeare / Theresa D. Kemp.

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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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