A feminist companion to Shakespeare

Other Authors: Callaghan, Dympna.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, [2001]
Physical Description: xxiv, 384 pages ; 26 cm.
Edition: 1st pbk.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ladies' Shakespeare /
  • Juliet Fleming
  • Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare critic /
  • Katherine M. Romack
  • Misogyny is everywhere /
  • Phyllis Rackin
  • Feminist editing and the body of the text /
  • Laurie E. Maguire
  • Made to write 'whore' upon?": male and female use of the word "whore" in Shakespeare's canon /
  • Kay Stanton
  • "Word, sweet Lucrece": confession, feminism, and the rape of Lucrece /
  • Margo Hendricks
  • Gender, class and the ideology of comic form: Much ado about nothing and Twelfth Night /
  • Mihoko Suzuki
  • Gendered "gifts" in Shakespeare's Belmont: the economies of exchange in early modern England /
  • Jyotsna G. Singh
  • Great Indian vanishing trick: colonialism, property, and the family in A midsummer night's dream /
  • Ania Loomba
  • Black ram, white ewe: Shakespeare, race and women /
  • Joyce Green MacDonald
  • Sycorax in Algiers: cultural politics and gynecology in early modern England /
  • Rachana Sachdev
  • Black and white, and dread all over: the Shakespeare theater's "photonegative" Othello and the body of Desdemona /
  • Denise Albanese
  • Women and boys playing Shakespeare /
  • Juliet Dusinberre
  • Mutant scenes and "minor" conflicts in Richard II /
  • Molly Smith
  • Lovesickness, gender, and subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As you like it /
  • Carol Thomas Neely
  • ... in the lesbian void: woman-woman eroticism in Shakespeare's plays /
  • Theodora A. Jankowski
  • Duncan's corpse /
  • Susan Zimmerman
  • Others and lovers in The merchant of Venice /
  • M. Lindsay Kaplan
  • Between idolatry and astrology: modes of temporal repetition in Romeo and Juliet /
  • Philippa Berry.