Shakespeare and women / Phyllis Rackin.

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Rackin, Phyllis

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford Shakespeare topicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (168 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191513916
0191513911
9780198186946
0198186940
9780198711988
0198711980

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shakespeare and women.DDC classification:

822.3/3 22

LOC classification:

PR2991 .R33 2005eb

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Contents:

A usable history -- The place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world : historical fact and feminist interpretation -- Our canon, ourselves -- Boys will be girls -- The lady's reeking breath -- Shakespeare's timeless women.

Summary: Shakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. It argues that the current scholarly emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression may tell us more about ourselves than about the world Shakespeare inhabited and the worlds he created in his. plays. - ;Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early mod.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index.

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Shakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. It argues that the current scholarly emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression may tell us more about ourselves than about the world Shakespeare inhabited and the worlds he created in his. plays. - ;Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early mod.

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