[PDF] Shakespeares Heroines eBook

Author : Anna Murphy Jameson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781551113241

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First published in 1832, Shakespeare’s Heroines is a unique hybrid of Shakespeare criticism, women’s rights activism, and conduct literature. Jameson’s collection of readings of female characters includes praise for unexpected role models as varied as Portia, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth; her interpretations of these and other characters portray intellect, passion, political ambition, and eroticism as acceptable aspects of women’s behaviour. This inventive work of literary criticism addresses the problems of women’s education and participation in public life while also providing insightful, original, and entertaining readings of Shakespeare’s women. This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that places Shakespeare’s Heroines in the context of Jameson’s literary career and political life. Appendices include personal correspondence and other literary and political writings by Jameson, examples of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespeare criticism, and selections from Victorian conduct books.

Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575129867

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines is a moving meditation on the things that endure in the face of implacable circumstance: art, love, freedom, the persistence of erotic fervor, the indelible beauty of the natural world.

Author : Harriet Walter
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781848422933

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A rich journey of discovery through the greatest roles in Shakespeare, both female and male.

Author : Tina Packer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307745341

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Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Child actors
ISBN : 9780472084050

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Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Author : Charles George
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822212393

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THE STORY: Imagine the fun when six of Shakespeare's heroines get together to discuss the universal topic-love. That's what happens in this thirty-minute playlet. Juliet has just fallen in love with Romeo and the other ladies of the Bard's imagination convene to enlighten her on the best method of conducting a romance.

Author : Melissa Emerson Walter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1487503644

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This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

Author : Phyllis Rackin
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198186940

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Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged. In so doing, this book seeks to challenge currently prevalent views of Shakespeare's women-both the women he depicted in his plays and the women he encountered in the world he inhabited. Chapter 1, "A Usable History," analyses the implications and consequences of the emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression that has dominated recent feminist Shakespeare scholarship, while subsequent chapters propose alternative models for feminist analysis. Chapter 2, "The Place(s) of Women in Shakespeare's World," emphasizes the frequently overlooked kinds of social, political, and economic agency exercised by the women Shakespeare would have known in both Stratford and London. Chapter 3, "Our Canon, Ourselves," addresses the implications of the modern popularity of plays such as The Taming of the Shrew which seem to endorse women's subjugation, arguing that the plays--and the aspects of those plays--that we have chosen to emphasize tell us more about our own assumptions than about the beliefs that informed the responses of Shakespeare's first audiences. Chapter 4, "Boys will be Girls," explores the consequences for women of the use of male actors to play women's roles. Chapter 5, "The Lady's Reeking Breath," turns to the sonnets, the texts that seem most resistant to feminist appropriation, to argue that Shakespeare's rewriting of the idealized Petrarchan lady anticipates modern feminist critiques of the essential misogyny of the Petrarchan tradition. The final chapter, "Shakespeare's Timeless Women," surveys the implication of Shakespeare's female characters in the process of historical change, as they have been repeatedly updated to conform to changing conceptions of women's nature and women's social roles, serving in ever-changing guises as models of an unchanging, universal female nature.