Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections

Katherine Romack is Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Florida, USA. James Fitzmaurice is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, USA., and Director of Distance Education for the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK

Contents: Introduction: Cavendish and Shakespeare, interconnections, Katherine Romack and James Fitzmaurice; 'Thou art a moniment, without a tombe': affiliation and memorialization in Margaret Cavendish's Plays and Plays, Never before Printed, Shannon Miller; Shakespeare, Cavendish, and reading aloud in 17th-century England, James Fitzmaurice; Drama's Olio: a new way to serve old ingredients in The Religious and The Matrimonial Trouble, Erna Kelly; Dining at the table of sense: Shakespeare, Cavendish, and The Convent of Pleasure, Brandie R. Siegfried; Testifying in the court of public opinion: Margaret Cavendish reworks The Winter's Tale, Alex Bennett; Gender, the political subject, and dramatic authorship: Margaret Cavendish's Loves Adventures and the Shakespearean example, Mihoko Suzuki; Old playwrights, old soldiers, new martial subjects: the Cavendishes and the drama of soldiery, Vimala C. Pasupathi; Enlarging Margaret: Cavendish, Shakespeare, and French women warriors and writers, Amy Scott-Douglass; The Unnatural Tragedy and familial absolutisms, Karen Raber; 'I wonder she should be so infamous for a whore?: Cleopatra restored, Katherine Romack; Index.