The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of ShakespeareCarolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely |
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... Sexuality as Power in Shakespeare's Plays Paula S. Berggren " Neither mother , wife , nor England's queen " : The Roles of Women in Richard III Madonne M. Miner Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape Catharine R. Stimpson ix 3 17 35 56 Comic ...
... Sexuality as Power in Shakespeare's Plays Paula S. Berggren " Neither mother , wife , nor England's queen " : The Roles of Women in Richard III Madonne M. Miner Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape Catharine R. Stimpson ix 3 17 35 56 Comic ...
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... Sexual Politics , Carolyn G. Heilbrun's Toward a Recognition of An- drogyny , Ellen Moers's Literary Women.3 Much of this current analysis and criticism , however , has focused on contemporary society and on nineteenth- and twen- tieth ...
... Sexual Politics , Carolyn G. Heilbrun's Toward a Recognition of An- drogyny , Ellen Moers's Literary Women.3 Much of this current analysis and criticism , however , has focused on contemporary society and on nineteenth- and twen- tieth ...
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... sexuality . They note that in tragedy , where women are without benefit of disguise , their roles are at once more varied , more constricted , and more precarious . While in comedy , the heroines achieve their ends gracefully by playing ...
... sexuality . They note that in tragedy , where women are without benefit of disguise , their roles are at once more varied , more constricted , and more precarious . While in comedy , the heroines achieve their ends gracefully by playing ...
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... sexual and psychological development entirely ade- quate , they make extensive use of psychoanalytic insights into male ambivalence toward female sexuality . Throughout the can- on these critics trace a persistent theme - men's ...
... sexual and psychological development entirely ade- quate , they make extensive use of psychoanalytic insights into male ambivalence toward female sexuality . Throughout the can- on these critics trace a persistent theme - men's ...
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... sexuality . Women's parts are social as well as sexual , and they may be false - roles adopted to deceive or inflicted by the dominant patriarchal cul- ture . They make up but one portion of a whole and must be un- derstood in relation ...
... sexuality . Women's parts are social as well as sexual , and they may be false - roles adopted to deceive or inflicted by the dominant patriarchal cul- ture . They make up but one portion of a whole and must be un- derstood in relation ...
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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