A feminist companion to Shakespeare

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A feminist companion to Shakespeare

edited by Dympna Callaghan

(Blackwell companions to literature and culture)

Blackwell, 2001

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First published 2000

Includes index

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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken by all--women team of contributors to A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Introduction: Dympna Callaghan. Part I: The history of feminist Shakespeare criticism:. 1. The Ladiesa Shakespeare: Juliet Fleming. 2. Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic: Katherine M. Romack. 3. Misogyny is Everywhere: Phyllis Rackin. Part II: Text and Language:. 4. Feminist Editing and the Body of the Text: Laurie E Maguire. 5. Made to write a whorea Upon?: Male and Female Use of the Word "Whore" in Shakespearea s Canon: Kay Stanton. 6. A word, Sweet Lucrece: Confession, Feminism and The Rape of Lucrece: Margo Hendricks. Part III: Social Economies:. 7. Gender, Class, and the Ideology of Comic Form, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night: Mihoko Suzuki. 8. Gendered a Giftsa in Shakespearea s Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in Early Modern England: Jyotsna G. Singh. Part IV: Race and Colonialism:. 9. The Great Indian Vanishing Trick--Colonialism, Property and the Family in A Midsummer Nighta s Dream: Ania Loomba. 10. Black Ram, White Ewe: Shakespeare, Race, and Women: Joyce Green MacDonald. 11. Sycorax in Algiers: Cultural Politics and Gynecology in Early Modern England: Rachana Sachdev. 12. Black and White and Dread All Over: The Shakespeare Theatera s "Photonegative" Othello and the body of Desdemona: Denise Albanese. Part V: Performing Sexuality:. 13. Women and Boys Playing Shakespeare: Juliet Dusinberre. 14. Mutant Scenes and a Minora Conflicts in Richard II: MollySmith. 15. Lovesickness, Gender, and Subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As You Like It: Carol Thomas Neely. 16. In the Lesbian Void: Woman--Woman Eroticism in Shakespearea s Plays: Theodora Jankowski. 17. Duncana s Corpse: Susan Zimmerman. Part VI: Religion:. 18. Others and Lovers in The Merchant of Venice: M. Lindsay Kaplan. 19. Between Idolatry and Astrology: Modes of Temporal Repetition in Romeo and Juliet: Philippa Berry. Index.

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