Women in Shakespeare - A Dictionary

This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare''s personal and professional lives.>

List of contents

Series Editor's Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Abbreviations
Introduction
Dictionary A-Z entries
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University, UK.

Report

This encyclopaedic and critically sophisticated survey of women and womanhood in Shakespeare offers a uniquely invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. Professor Stanley Wells, CBE, Chairman, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

Product details

• Authors: Alison Findlay, Professor Alison Findlay
• Assisted by: Sandra Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9781472520470
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-2047-0
• No. of pages: 568
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries; Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Englisch, Nachschlagewerke, Shakespeare, Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare