| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations. |
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Feminist readings of Shakespeare |
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Feminist readings of Shakespeare.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry, Part III Richard III Richard II Henry V Engendering a Nation makes an original and topical contribution to the study of Shakespeare's history plays and is especially valuable to students and scholars with an interest in where feminist and historicist approaches to the Renaissance intersect. Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Pla. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- History.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Views on sex role.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Historical drama, English -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Historiography.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
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Historical drama, English. (OCoLC)fst00957929
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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National characteristics, English, in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033416
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Nationalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01033899
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1066-1687
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Rackin, Phyllis.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948- Engendering a nation. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 0415047498 (DLC) 96031661 (OCoLC)35049656 |
| ISBN |
0203205103 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203205105 (electronic bk.) |
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