02564nam 2200529 450 991079558910332120201023111955.01-4725-6710-21-4725-6708-01-4725-6709-910.5040/9781472567109(CKB)4340000000214369(MiAaPQ)EBC4985940(OCoLC)1201426251(CaBNVSL)mat72567109(CaBNVSL)9781472567109(EXLCZ)99434000000021436920201023d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierShakespeare and feminist theory /Marianne NovyLondon, England :Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,2020.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,20201 online resource (211 pages)Arden Shakespeare and theory1-4725-6706-4 1-4725-6707-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-193) and index.Introduction -- Likeness and difference -- Desire -- Marriage -- Motherhood -- Language -- Between women -- Work.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.Arden Shakespeare and theory.Feminism and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryLiterary theorybicsscFeminism and literatureHistoryLiterary theory822.3/3Novy Marianne1945-1476151DLCCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910795589103321Shakespeare and feminist theory3690564UNINA