| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition |
| Description |
xvii, 327 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index. |
| Contents |
Warrior women: violence to negotiation : Understanding the structure: form and content ; Which came first ; The comedies ; Joan ; Margaret ; Elizabeth ; The drive to make plays ; An interlude. The plague years -- The sexual merges with the spiritual: new knowledge : Romeo and Juliet: An interlude: Mediations on Shakespeare's use of the soul ; Troilus and Cressida ; Antony and Cleopatra ; The women who follow Juliet ; Benedick's choice: Beatrice ; An interlude: Dealing with loss: lamentation versus honor -- Living underground or dying to tell the truth : An interlude: Switching genders ; Overview of the progression of the cross-dressers ; Rosalind and 1599 ; Dying to tell the truth: Ophelia, Desdemona, Cordelia ; Measure for measure ; Twelfth night ; Descent of Shakespeare's psyche: All's well that ends well ; An interlude: Language in the body -- Chaos is come again: the lion eats the wolf : Overview: Hamlet leading into Macbeth ; Goneril and Regan ; Volumnia ; Timon of Athens ; An interlude: Creativity -- The maiden phoenix: the daughter redeems the father : Coming full-circle ; Pericles ; Cymbeline ; The winter's tale ; The tempest ; All is true: Henry VIII. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
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Women in literature.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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| ISBN |
0307745341 |
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9780307745347 |
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