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feminist Shakespeare criticism
gender in Early modern England
gender in Shakespeare
Henry VIII
history of feminist Shakespeare criticism
idolatry and Shakespeare
Margaret Cavendish
misogyny and Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
performing sexuality
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare and astrology
Shakespeare and colonialism
Shakespeare and feminism
Shakespeare and race
Shakespeare and Religion
Shakespeare and status
Shakespeare's Belmont
Shakespeare's canon
Shakespeare's women
Shakespeare'sconflicts
Tale
temporal repetition
The Merchant of Venice
The Rape of Lucrece
The Winter's
Twelfth Night
women in Shakespeare
women in theater
Product details
- ISBN 9781119240044
- Dimensions: 171 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2026
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.
- Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century
- Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England
- Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery
- Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism
- In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare
- The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day
Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, New York. Her books inlcude Shakespeare Without Women (2000), The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Culture (2006), Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2007), Who Was William Shakespeare (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and Hamlet: Language and Writing (2015). She is a past president of Shakespeare Association of America.
