Shakespeare And The Nature Of Women

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Nature of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy. Dusinberre claims that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the Second Edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349245313
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Nature of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-06-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403917287
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Nature of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Nature of Women, first published in 1975, inaugurated a new wave of feminist scholarship. It claimed that Shakespeare's plays offered a sustained critique of inherited male thinking about women, theological, literary and social. The book argued that the presence of the boy actor in Shakespeare's theatre created an awareness of gender as performance. Almost 30 years on, it continues to be a useful resource in writing about women in this period and a springboard for new research.

Author : Phyllis Rackin
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
ISBN 13 : 0198186940
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Women written by Phyllis Rackin and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Shakespeare and Women' challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women. It argues that the current scholarly emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression may tell us more about ourselves than about the world Shakespeare inhabited and the worlds he created in his plays.

Author : Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252010163
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman's Part written by Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515238
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Victorian Women written by Gail Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.

Author : Theresa D. Kemp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Age of Shakespeare written by Theresa D. Kemp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare. Like the other entries in this fascinating series, Women in the Age of Shakespeare shows the influence of the world William Shakespeare lived in on the worlds he created for the stage, this time by focusing on women in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in general and in Shakespeare's works in particular. Women in the Age of Shakespeare explores the ancient and medieval ideas that Shakespeare drew upon in creating his great comedic and tragic heroines. It then looks at how these ideas intersected with the lived experiences of women of Shakespeare's time, followed by a close look at the major female characters in Shakespeare's plays and poems. Later chapters consider how these characters have been enacted on stage and in film, interpreted by critics and scholars, and re-imagined by writers in our own time.

Author : Tina Packer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745341
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Will written by Tina Packer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

Author : Khalil M. Habib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498543278
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Statesmanship written by Khalil M. Habib and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political wisdom. The chapters in this volume support and illuminate this connection between Shakespearean drama and politics by examining a matter of central concern in both domains: the human soul. By depicting a bewildering variety of characters as they seek happiness and self-knowledge in the context of differing political regimes, family ties, religious duties, friendships, feuds, and poetic inspirations, Shakespeare illuminates the complex interdynamics between self-rule and political governance, educating readers by compelling us to share in the struggles of and relate to the tensions felt by each character in a way that no political treatise or lecture can. The authors of this volume, drawing upon expertise in fields such as political philosophy, American government, and law, explore the Bard’s dramatization of perennial questions about human nature, moral virtue, and statesmanship, demonstrating that reading his plays as works of philosophical literature enhances our understanding of political life and provides a source of advice and inspiration for the citizens and statesmen of today and tomorrow.

Author : Molly G. Yarn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316518353
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors' written by Molly G. Yarn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and compelling revisionist history tells the remarkable story of the forgotten lives and labours of Shakespeare's women editors.