Poor Women in Shakespeare

Informationen zum Autor Fiona McNeill is a former professor and private book developer and holds a PhD on the subject of Shakespeare. She is the author of Ten Steps to an A. Klappentext An unusual study of the representation of poor and homeless women in Shakespeare's plays. Zusammenfassung Poor women do not fit easily into the household in Shakespeare. They shift in and out of marriages and households; never the main character but always evoking the ever-present problem of female poverty in early modern England. This book considers how their dramas are played out in the plays of Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: maid, wife, and widow: re-organizing early modern women; 1. Free and bound maids: poor women in early industrial England; 2. Pregnant maids: the new bastardy laws; 3. Playhouse, courtroom, and pulpit: poor women in the news; 4. Masterless women in early modern London; 5. Poor women in the New World; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Mcneill, Fiona (University of Oklahoma) Mcneill, McNeill Fiona
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107405936
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40593-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean