Engendering a nation : a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories / Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin.

By:

Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-

Contributor(s):

Rackin, Phyllis

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Feminist readings of ShakespearePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203205103
9780203205105
9780415047494
0415047498
9780415047487
041504748X
9786610323968
6610323968
1134946163
9781134946167
1280323965
9781280323966

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engendering a nation.DDC classification:

822.3/3 20

LOC classification:

PR2982 .H67 1997eb

Other classification:

18.05
HI 3451

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Contents:

Part Part I MAKING GENDER VISIBLE A re-viewing of Shakespeare's history plays -- chapter 1 THOROUGHLY MODERN HENRY -- chapter 2 THE HISTORY PLAY IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME -- chapter 3 FEMINISM, WOMEN, AND THE SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY PLAY -- chapter 4 THE THEATER AS INSTITUTION -- part Part II WEAK KINGS, WARRIOR WOMEN, AND THE ASSAULT ON DYNASTIC AUTHORITY The first tetralogy and King John -- chapter 5 HENRY VI, PART I -- chapter 6 HENRY VI, PART II -- chapter 7 HENRY VI, PART III -- chapter 8 RICHARD III -- chapter 9 KING JOHN -- part Part III GENDER AND NATION Anticipations of modernity in the second tetralogy -- chapter 10 RICHARD II -- chapter 11 THE HENRY IV PLAYS -- chapter 12 HENRY V.

Summary: Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry, Part III Richard III Richard II Henry V Engendering a Nation makes an original and topical contribution to the study of Shakespeare's history plays and is especially valuable to students and scholars with an interest in where feminist and historicist approaches to the Renaissance intersect. Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Pla.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index.

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Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry, Part III Richard III Richard II Henry V Engendering a Nation makes an original and topical contribution to the study of Shakespeare's history plays and is especially valuable to students and scholars with an interest in where feminist and historicist approaches to the Renaissance intersect. Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Pla.

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