Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

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.>

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• Authors: Evelyn Gajowski, Marianne Novy, Marianne (University of Pittsburgh Novy, Marianne (University of Pittsburgh USA) Novy, Professor Marianne (University of Pittsburgh Novy, NOVY MARIANNE
• Assisted by: Evelyn Gajowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2019
• EAN: 9781472567062
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-6706-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Shakespeare and Theory; Shakespeare and Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights