Shakespeare and Women

Shakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. 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 createdin his plays.Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. A Usable History -- 2. The Place(s) of Women in Shakespeare's World: Historical Fact and Feminist 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- ZShakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. 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 createdin his plays.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Poetry Without Paradox: The Limitations of The New Criticism of The Lyric

177 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1962.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD