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Author Crawford, John W.

Title The learning, wit, and wisdom of Shakespeare's Renaissance women / John W. Crawford.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, [1997]
©1997

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S527YCRA    Check Shelf
Description 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in Renaissance literature ; v. 14
Studies in Renaissance literature ; v. 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-386).
Contents The education of Renaissance women: looking forward to Shakespeare's women of wit -- Education of Renaissance women: negative changes under James I -- Secondary wisdom: the role of women as mentors in Shakespeare's plays -- Portia: re-evaluated portrait -- The simultaneous depersonalization and individualization of Shakespeare's Hermia and Juliet -- Writing women and reading the Renaissance -- Images of women in Shakespeare's plays -- "When men are rul'd by women": Shakespeare's first tetralogy -- "Intercepting the dew drop": female readers and reading in Anna Jameson's Shakespearean criticism -- The critics discover Shakespeare's women.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women -- Education -- England -- History.
Women -- England -- Social conditions.
Sex role in literature.
Renaissance -- England.
ISBN 0773487379 hardcover
0889461430 ser.
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