The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of ShakespeareCarolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely |
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... marriage and the family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; feminist historians like Joan Kelly - Gadol , Kathleen Casey , and Natalie Zemon Davis ex- plore the relative position of the sexes in the period ; a historical critic ...
... marriage and the family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; feminist historians like Joan Kelly - Gadol , Kathleen Casey , and Natalie Zemon Davis ex- plore the relative position of the sexes in the period ; a historical critic ...
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... marriage age for women ( 24 ) and men ( 28 ) during the Renaissance . But Romeo and Juliet and other plays imply much earlier puberty and marriageability . Shake- speare does not prove the historians ' figures wrong , but his plays ...
... marriage age for women ( 24 ) and men ( 28 ) during the Renaissance . But Romeo and Juliet and other plays imply much earlier puberty and marriageability . Shake- speare does not prove the historians ' figures wrong , but his plays ...
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... marriage to the husband's known murderer in Historiae Dani- cae , of adultery during marriage in Histoires Tragiques . In Shake- speare's Hamlet , the precise nature of Gertrude's faults and the extent of her recognition of them are ...
... marriage to the husband's known murderer in Historiae Dani- cae , of adultery during marriage in Histoires Tragiques . In Shake- speare's Hamlet , the precise nature of Gertrude's faults and the extent of her recognition of them are ...
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... Marriage in England , 1500- 1800 ( New York : Harper & Row , 1977 ) ; Peter Laslett , The World We Have Lost , 2d ed . ( London : Harper & Row , 1977 ) ; Joan Kelly - Gadol , " The Social Relation of the Sexes : Methodological ...
... Marriage in England , 1500- 1800 ( New York : Harper & Row , 1977 ) ; Peter Laslett , The World We Have Lost , 2d ed . ( London : Harper & Row , 1977 ) ; Joan Kelly - Gadol , " The Social Relation of the Sexes : Methodological ...
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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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