Shakespeare and Gender

Kate Aughterson is Academic Programme Leader for Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Ailsa Grant Ferguson is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements


Introduction

Chapter one
The Woman’s Voice
Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s Tale

Chapter two
Kingship and the Male Body politic
Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard III

Interlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh

Chapter three
Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender
Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends Well
Chapter four
Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s)
Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like It

Interlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps

Chapter five
Gendering Madness
Key Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble Kinsmen

Chapter six
Paternity and Patriarchy
Key Text: King Lear, with The Tempest
Chapter seven
Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender
Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles
Chapter eight
Anxious Masculinity
Key Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale,
Chapter nine
Maternal Bodies: Female Powers
Key Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale

References

Index