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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795589103321

Autore

Novy Marianne <1945->

Titolo

Shakespeare and feminist theory / / Marianne Novy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-4725-6710-2

1-4725-6708-0

1-4725-6709-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages)

Collana

Arden Shakespeare and theory

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Feminism and literature - England - History - 16th century

Literary theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Likeness and difference -- Desire -- Marriage -- Motherhood -- Language -- Between women -- Work.

Sommario/riassunto

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture's ideas of motherhood and of women's work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.