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.