Shakespeare and WomenOUP Oxford, 26 трав. 2005 р. - 180 стор. Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged. In so doing, this book seeks to challenge currently prevalent views of Shakespeare's women-both the women he depicted in his plays and the women he encountered in the world he inhabited. Chapter 1, 'A Usable History', analyses the implications and consequences of the emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression that has dominated recent feminist Shakespeare scholarship, while subsequent chapters propose alternative models for feminist analysis. Chapter 2, 'The Place(s) of Women in Shakespeare's World', emphasizes the frequently overlooked kinds of social, political, and economic agency exercised by the women Shakespeare would have known in both Stratford and London. Chapter 3, 'Our Canon, Ourselves', addresses the implications of the modern popularity of plays such as The Taming of the Shrew which seem to endorse women's subjugation, arguing that the plays-and the aspects of those plays-that we have chosen to emphasize tell us more about our own assumptions than about the beliefs that informed the responses of Shakespeare's first audiences. Chapter 4, 'Boys will be Girls', explores the consequences for women of the use of male actors to play women's roles. Chapter 5, 'The Lady's Reeking Breath', turns to the sonnets, the texts that seem most resistant to feminist appropriation, to argue that Shakespeare's rewriting of the idealized Petrarchan lady anticipates modern feminist critiques of the essential misogyny of the Petrarchan tradition. The final chapter, 'Shakespeare's Timeless Women', surveys the implication of Shakespeare's female characters in the process of historical change, as they have been repeatedly updated to conform to changing conceptions of women's nature and women's social roles, serving in ever-changing guises as models of an unchanging, universal female nature. |
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... Reading Phyllis Rackin, Shakespeare and Women Bruce Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity Zdeneˇk Strıbrny ́, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe Stanley Wells, ed., Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism Martin Wiggins ...
... Reading Phyllis Rackin, Shakespeare and Women Bruce Smith, Shakespeare and Masculinity Zdeneˇk Strıbrny ́, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe Stanley Wells, ed., Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism Martin Wiggins ...
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... Interpretation 3. Our Canon, Ourselves 4. Boys Will Be Girls 5. The Lady's Reeking Breath 6. Shakespeare's Timeless Women Further Reading Notes Index 72 95 112 138 145 161 22 113 115 1. 'The Leaden Hall Market', from Hugh. Contents.
... Interpretation 3. Our Canon, Ourselves 4. Boys Will Be Girls 5. The Lady's Reeking Breath 6. Shakespeare's Timeless Women Further Reading Notes Index 72 95 112 138 145 161 22 113 115 1. 'The Leaden Hall Market', from Hugh. Contents.
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... on a familiar aspect, not in their details, but in their functions as a familiar kind of conWguration. They are familiarized, not only because the reader now has more information about the events, but also Introduction Introduction.
... on a familiar aspect, not in their details, but in their functions as a familiar kind of conWguration. They are familiarized, not only because the reader now has more information about the events, but also Introduction Introduction.
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... reader', implying either that most readers were likely to be men or that the gender of the reader was irrelevant. In my own appropriation of White's argument, I am assuming that the gender of the reader is indeed relevant, as is her or ...
... reader', implying either that most readers were likely to be men or that the gender of the reader was irrelevant. In my own appropriation of White's argument, I am assuming that the gender of the reader is indeed relevant, as is her or ...
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... readers' expectations. Chapter 5 situates Shakespeare's sonnets within that tradition, which, as recent feminist critics have demonstrated, was itself inherently misogynistic. Although the traditional sonnets were ostensibly designed to ...
... readers' expectations. Chapter 5 situates Shakespeare's sonnets within that tradition, which, as recent feminist critics have demonstrated, was itself inherently misogynistic. Although the traditional sonnets were ostensibly designed to ...
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Historical Fact and Feminist Interpretation | 26 |
3 Our Canon Ourselves | 48 |
4 Boys Will Be Girls | 72 |
5 The Ladys Reeking Breath | 95 |
6 Shakespeares Timeless Women | 112 |
Further Reading | 138 |
Notes | 145 |
Index | 161 |
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