Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-7418-6 (ISBN)
Cristina León Alfar is Professor of Shakespeare, Early Modern English drama, and Women's and Gender Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. Her first book, Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy, was published by the U of Delaware P in 2003. Her third book, Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, edited with Emily G. Sherwood, documents Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and ongoing disputes (forthcoming from Routledge 2021). She is co-editor, with Helen Ostovich, of the series "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture" for MIP. Currently, she is at work on women parrhesiasts in early modern English drama.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neither Silent nor Obedient: Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays
Chapter One: Early Modern Women’s Narratives of Marital Betrayal
Chapter Two: ‘A woman of quick sense’: Women’s Agency in Troilus and Cressida and The Merry Wives of Windsor
Chapter Three: ‘Manhood is melted into curtsies’: Shifting Masculine Honor in Much Ado about Nothing
Chapter Four: ‘An essence that’s not seen’ or ‘an odious damned lie’: The Ethics of Competing Narratives in Othello
Chapter Five: ‘Paper bullets of the brain’: Revising the Cuckoldry Play in The Winter’s Tale and Cymbeline
Post Script
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Women and Gender in the Early Modern World |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 566 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4724-7418-X / 147247418X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-7418-6 / 9781472474186 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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