The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of ShakespeareCarolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, Carol Thomas Neely University of Illinois Press, 1980 - 348 pages |
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Contents
Female Sexuality as Power in Shakespeares Plays | 17 |
The Roles of Women in Richard III | 35 |
Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape | 56 |
Comic Structure and the Humanizing of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew | 65 |
Much Ado and the Distrust of Women | 79 |
How a Girl Can Be Smart and Still Popular | 100 |
Intimate Conversations between Women in Shakespeares Plays | 117 |
A kind of self | 133 |
What should such a fool Do with so good a woman? | 211 |
Infirm of purpose | 240 |
Shakespeares Female Characters as Actors and Audience | 256 |
A Penchant for Perdita on the Eighteenth Century English Stage | 271 |
Sexism and Racism in Shakespeares Tempest | 285 |
Shakespeares Imperiled and Chastening Daughters of Romance | 295 |
A Selective Bibliography | 314 |
Contributors | 337 |
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