The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of ShakespeareCarolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely |
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... Gertrude Rebecca Smith 194 Women and Men in Othello : " What should such a fool / Do with so good a woman ? " Carol Thomas Neely Lady Macbeth : " Infirm of purpose " Joan Larsen Klein Shakespeare's Female Characters as Actors and ...
... Gertrude Rebecca Smith 194 Women and Men in Othello : " What should such a fool / Do with so good a woman ? " Carol Thomas Neely Lady Macbeth : " Infirm of purpose " Joan Larsen Klein Shakespeare's Female Characters as Actors and ...
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... Gertrude and Ophelia are characters who have an existence and importance beyond Hamlet's perceptions of them . They notice how Desdemona , Emilia , and Bianca significantly shape the plot , themes , conflicts , and movement of Othello ...
... Gertrude and Ophelia are characters who have an existence and importance beyond Hamlet's perceptions of them . They notice how Desdemona , Emilia , and Bianca significantly shape the plot , themes , conflicts , and movement of Othello ...
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... Gertrude , taking their cue from Hamlet's fantasies of her , instead of from an analysis of her decorous , bewildered lines . Productions often cut Desdemona's and Emilia's pivotal willow scene ; Mor- gan's and Garrick's eighteenth ...
... Gertrude , taking their cue from Hamlet's fantasies of her , instead of from an analysis of her decorous , bewildered lines . Productions often cut Desdemona's and Emilia's pivotal willow scene ; Mor- gan's and Garrick's eighteenth ...
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... , Kate is liberated simulta- neously from the rigidities of farce and from the narrowly stereo- typed role of the analogous figure in conventional shrew - taming literature of the period . Gertrude in Hamlet is more 8 THE WOMAN'S PART.
... , Kate is liberated simulta- neously from the rigidities of farce and from the narrowly stereo- typed role of the analogous figure in conventional shrew - taming literature of the period . Gertrude in Hamlet is more 8 THE WOMAN'S PART.
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... Gertrude in Hamlet is more opaque than the parallel characters in the sources , who are explicitly guilty- of ... Gertrude's faults and the extent of her recognition of them are ambiguous . This ambiguity is not only consistent with the ...
... Gertrude in Hamlet is more opaque than the parallel characters in the sources , who are explicitly guilty- of ... Gertrude's faults and the extent of her recognition of them are ambiguous . This ambiguity is not only consistent with the ...
Contents
Female Sexuality as Power in Shakespeares Plays | 17 |
The Roles of Women in Richard III | 35 |
Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape | 56 |
Comic Structure and the Humanizing of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew | 65 |
Much Ado and the Distrust of Women | 79 |
How a Girl Can Be Smart and Still Popular | 100 |
Intimate Conversations between Women in Shakespeares Plays | 117 |
A kind of self | 133 |
What should such a fool Do with so good a woman? | 211 |
Infirm of purpose | 240 |
Shakespeares Female Characters as Actors and Audience | 256 |
A Penchant for Perdita on the Eighteenth Century English Stage | 271 |
Sexism and Racism in Shakespeares Tempest | 285 |
Shakespeares Imperiled and Chastening Daughters of Romance | 295 |
A Selective Bibliography | 314 |
Contributors | 337 |
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