Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

Professor Marianne Novy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2019
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-4725-6706-2 (ISBN)

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Are Shakespeare’s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture’s ideas of motherhood and of women’s work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.

Marianne Novy is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and has been teaching Shakespeare from a feminist perspective there since 1971.

1. Introduction
2. Likeness and Difference
3. Desire
4. Marriage
5. Motherhood
6. Language
7. Between Women
8. Work
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Shakespeare and Theory
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	242 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	1-4725-6706-4 / 1472567064
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-6706-2 / 9781472567062
Zustand	Neuware