The Matter of difference : materialist feminist criticism of Shakespeare
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The Matter of difference : materialist feminist criticism of Shakespeare
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991
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Includes index
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Description
Approaches Shakespeare's works with a concern for the material conditions of Renaissance culture, and its relations to gender, class, race and erotic practices. The contributions display a commitment to feminism, materialism and close attention to the historical context of the works.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Shakespearean comedy: "What You Will" - social mobility and gender in "Twelfth Night", Cristina Malcolmson
- patrimony and patriarchy in "The Merchant of Venice", Carol Leventen
- desire and the difference it makes, Valerie Traub. Part 2 Shakespearean tragedy: are there any women in "King Lear"?, Ann Thompson
- "the swallowing womb" - consumed and consuming women in "Titus Andronicus", Marion Wynne-Davies
- historical differences - misogyny and "Othello", Valerie Wayne
- defacing the feminine in Renaissance tragedy, Sara Eaton. Part 3 English Renaissance culture: the world turned upside down - inversion, gender and the state, Peter Stallybrass
- scripts and/versus playhouses - ideological production and the Renaissance public stage, Jean E. Howard
- nostalgia and the "rise of the English" - rhetorical questions, Stephen Foley. Afterword: a future for materialist feminist criticism?, Catherine Beasley.
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