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Shakespeare and women / Phyllis Rackin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Shakespeare topicsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (168 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191513916
  • 0191513911
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR2991
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
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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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction PR2991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm68112639\

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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