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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785101403321

Autore

Rackin Phyllis

Titolo

Shakespeare and women [[electronic resource] /] / Phyllis Rackin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-75829-5

9786610758296

0-19-151391-1

1-4237-6967-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - History - 16th century

Women and literature - England - History - 17th century

Women in the theater - England - History - 17th century

Women in the theater - England - History - 16th century

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-144)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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