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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... England, Scotland and Ireland (1577) Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library, University of Pennsylvania 118 126 133 This book situates Shakespeare's representations of women in a variety. List. of. Illustrations. List of Illustrations.
... England, Scotland and Ireland (1577) Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library, University of Pennsylvania 118 126 133 This book situates Shakespeare's representations of women in a variety. List. of. Illustrations. List of Illustrations.
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... representations of women historically. The last thirty years have witnessed an impressive and very inXuential body of scholarly work on this subject, but I believe it is time to reconsider the stories that that work has produced. When I ...
... representations of women historically. The last thirty years have witnessed an impressive and very inXuential body of scholarly work on this subject, but I believe it is time to reconsider the stories that that work has produced. When I ...
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... representations of women's power and autonomy as occasions for anxious hostility. Given the diYculty of rethinking our basic assumptions about women's places in Shakespeare's world, it is tempting to abandon the work of trying to see ...
... representations of women's power and autonomy as occasions for anxious hostility. Given the diYculty of rethinking our basic assumptions about women's places in Shakespeare's world, it is tempting to abandon the work of trying to see ...
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... representation is not mediated by the presence of a male actor performing her part. This appearance of unmediated self-expression makes it tempting to read the sonnets as a record of Shakespeare's own personal feelings, but the feelings ...
... representation is not mediated by the presence of a male actor performing her part. This appearance of unmediated self-expression makes it tempting to read the sonnets as a record of Shakespeare's own personal feelings, but the feelings ...
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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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