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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rackin, Phyllis. Shakespeare and women. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005000184 (OCoLC)57283261 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Phyllis Rackin |
ISBN: | 9780191513916 0191513911 9780198186946 0198186940 9780198711988 0198711980 |
OCLC Number: | 68112639 |
Awards: | Winner of *Choice* Outstanding Academic Book 2006. |
Description: | 1 online resource (168 pages). |
Contents: | A usable history -- The place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world : historical fact and feminist interpretation -- Our canon, ourselves -- Boys will be girls -- The lady's reeking breath -- Shakespeare's timeless women. |
Series Title: | Oxford Shakespeare topics. |
Responsibility: | Phyllis Rackin. |
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[this book] is not just a rich and original resource for scholars interested in fin-de-siecle Shakespeare or women performers of that period but also an encouragement to others working on Shakespearean performances in different historical times. * Susan Bennett, Modern Drama * Phyllis Rackin has provide us with a deftly defined casebook for the reconsideration of feminist criticism in the twenty-first century that looks to the future through a clear articulation of that criticism's past ... In each chapter, Rackin provides an alternative to the limiting assumptions she describes and thus offers brave new ways of seeing ... In focusing on the question of Shakespeare and women in the twenty-first century, Phyllis Rackin has renewed a senseof the feminist agenda within the field of Shakespeare studies. * Rebecca Laroche, Shakespeare Quarterly * Believing that historical research can provide rich resources to revitalize feminist criticism (if one looks for them), Rackin ably and amply points the way. She examines the place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world; the tendency to shape the canon in the reader's own image; the powerful truths Shakespeare offers about women (notably in Cleopatra) and life, truths evident despite or sometimes because of the use of boy actors; Shakespeare's 'complicated negotiationwith the Petrachan tradition' in the sonnets, which succeed, while addressing both sexes, in enabling women to think and feel honestly about themselves; and the continuous contemporaneousness of Shakespeare's women. The 'Further Reading' section is a vein of rich ore. Essential. * Choice * Read more...


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- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Sex role in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
- Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Femmes au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Femmes au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
- Femmes dans la littérature.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
- DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
- Families.
- Relations with women.
- Women and literature.
- Women in the theater.
- England.