INTRODUCTION For approximately the last two decades, feminist criticism has provided an invaluable discourse for understanding and appreciating Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Women’s Friendships, Language, and Mother-Daughter Relationships The Taming of the Shrew -Marital Battlefield or a Field of Games? Shakespeare’s Androgynous Heroines and the Politics of Gender Shakespeare and Renaissance Ideologies of Marriage and Women Was Shakespeare a Feminist or Wasn’t He?Ĭ. Contributions of Feminist Criticism to the Study of Shakespeareī. Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĪ. Women and literature-England- History- 16th century-Bibliography. Feminism and literature- England-History- 16th century-Bibliography. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Criticism and interpretation- Bibliography. (Garland reference library of the humanities vol. Shakespeare and feminist criticism : an annotated bibliography and commentary / Philip C. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kolin, Philip C. SHAKESPEARE AND FEMINIST CRITICISM An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary Philip C. A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 91027900 ISBN 13: 978-1-6 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-9-5 (ebk)
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This edition first published in 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1991 Philip C. Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism An Annotated Bibliography and Commentaryįirst published in 1991 by Garland Publishing Inc. Accompanying the 439 entries are extensive, informative annotations that strive to maintain the original author’s perspective, supplying a careful and thorough account of the main points of an article. While the primary focus is on feminist studies of Shakespeare, it also includes wide-ranging works on language, desire, role-playing, theatre conventions, marriage, and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture - shedding light on Shakespeare’s views on and representation of women, sex and gender. First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 - a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work.