A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

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Pub. Date: 2001-11-28
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Dympna Callaghan is William P. Tolley, Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York. Her most recent book is Shakespeare Without Women (1999), and she has written widely on feminism and Renaissance Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
viii
Introduction xi
Dympna Callaghan
PART ONE The History of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism
The Ladies' Shakespeare
3(18)
Juliet Fleming
Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic
21(21)
Katherine M. Romack
Misogyny is Everywhere
42(17)
Phyllis Rackin
PART TWO Text and Language
Feminist Editing and the Body of the Text
59(21)
Laurie E. Maguire
``Made to write 'whore' upon?'': Male and Female Use of the Word ``Whore'' in Shakespeare's Canon
80(23)
Kay Stanton
``A word, sweet Lucrece'': Confession, Feminism, and The Rape of Lucrece
103(18)
Margo Hendricks
PART THREE Social Economies
Gender, Class, and the Ideology of Comic Form: Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night
121(23)
Mihoko Suzuki
Gendered ``Gifts'' in Shakespeare's Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in Early Modern England
144(19)
Jyotsna G. Singh
PART FOUR Race and Colonialism
The Great Indian Vanishing Trick - Colonialism, Property, and the Family in A Midsummer Night's Dream
163(25)
Ania Loomba
Black Ram, White Ewe: Shakespeare, Race, and Women
188(20)
Joyce Green MacDonald
Sycorax in Algiers: Cultural Politics and Gynecology in Early Modern England
208(18)
Rachana Sachdev
Black and White, and Dread All Over: The Shakespeare Theater's ``Photonegative'' Othello and the Body of Desdemona
226(25)
Denise Albanese
PART FIVE Performing Sexuality
Women and Boys Playing Shakespeare
251(12)
Juliet Dusinberre
Mutant Scenes and ``Minor'' Conflicts in Richard II
263(13)
Molly Smith
Lovesickness, Gender, and Subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As You Like It
276(23)
Carol Thomas Neely
...in the Lesbian Void: Woman-Woman Eroticism in Shakespeare's Plays
299(21)
Theodora A. Jankowski
Duncan's Corpse
320(21)
Susan Zimmerman
PART SIX Religion
Others and Lovers in The Merchant of Venice
341(17)
M. Lindsay Kaplan
Between Idolatry and Astrology: Modes of Temporal Repetition in Romeo and Juliet
358(15)
Philippa Berry
Index 373

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