Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender

KATE CHEDGZOY is Reader in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; K. Chedgzoy.- The Patriarchal Bard: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for Measure; K. McLuskie.- Feminist Theory and the Editing of Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew Revisited; A. Thompson.- Woman's Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to Shakespeare in Contemporary British Theatre; L. Goodman.- Gender and Nation: Anticipations of Modernity in the Second Tetralogy; J.E. Howard & P. Rackin.- How to Read The Merchant of Venice without being Heterosexist; A. Sinfield.- The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy; V. Traub.- Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I; S. Mullaney.- He Do Cressida in Different Voices; B. Hodgdon.- Revolutions, Petty Tyranny and the Murderous Husband; F. Dolan.- Macbeth and the All-singing, All-dancing Plays of the Jacobean Witch-Vogue; D. Purkiss.- The Colour of Patriarchy: Critical Difference, Cultural Difference and Renaissance Drama; A. Loomba.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.