Title Shakespeare and women / Phyllis Rackin.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (168 pages).
Series	Oxford Shakespeare topics
	Oxford Shakespeare topics.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-144) and index.
Contents	A usable history -- The place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world : historical fact and feminist interpretation -- Our canon, ourselves -- Boys will be girls -- The lady's reeking breath -- Shakespeare's timeless women.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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 created in his. plays. - ;Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early mod.
Subject	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Relations with women.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Family.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women -- Relations with women -- Family.
	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
	Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
	Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
	Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
	Sex role in literature.
	Women in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
	DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Relations with women. (OCoLC)fst01354410
	Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
	Women in the theater. (OCoLC)fst01178050
	England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
Chronological Term	1500-1699
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Rackin, Phyllis. Shakespeare and women. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0198711980 0198186940 (DLC) 2005000184 (OCoLC)57283261
ISBN	9780191513916 (electronic bk.)
	0191513911 (electronic bk.)

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