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Shakespeare and Women Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)

Shakespeare and Women par Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)

Shakespeare and Women Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)


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Challenges a number of assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets.

Shakespeare and Women Résumé

Shakespeare and Women Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)

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.

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[this book] is not just a rich and original resource for scholars interested in fin-de-siecle Shakespeare or women performers of that period but also an encouragement to others working on Shakespearean performances in different historical times. * Susan Bennett, Modern Drama *
Phyllis Rackin has provide us with a deftly defined casebook for the reconsideration of feminist criticism in the twenty-first century that looks to the future through a clear articulation of that criticism's past ... In each chapter, Rackin provides an alternative to the limiting assumptions she describes and thus offers brave new ways of seeing ... In focusing on the question of Shakespeare and women in the twenty-first century, Phyllis Rackin has renewed a sense of the feminist agenda within the field of Shakespeare studies. * Rebecca Laroche, Shakespeare Quarterly *
Believing that historical research can provide rich resources to revitalize feminist criticism (if one looks for them), Rackin ably and amply points the way. She examines the place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world; the tendency to shape the canon in the reader's own image; the powerful truths Shakespeare offers about women (notably in Cleopatra) and life, truths evident despite or sometimes because of the use of boy actors; Shakespeare's 'complicated negotiation with the Petrachan tradition' in the sonnets, which succeed, while addressing both sexes, in enabling women to think and feel honestly about themselves; and the continuous contemporaneousness of Shakespeare's women. The 'Further Reading' section is a vein of rich ore. Essential. * Choice *

À propos de Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)

Professor Phyllis Rackin has taught Shakespeare at the University of Pennsylvania for forty years. A former President of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has published three books on Shakespeare as well as numerous scholarly articles on Shakespeare and related subjects in anthologies and in such journals as PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare-Jahrbuch. Her awards include an ACLS fellowship and a Lindback award for distinguished teaching.

Sommaire

Introduction ; 1. A Usable History ; 2. The Place(s) of Women in Shakespeare's World: Historical Fact and Feminist Interpretation ; 3. Our Canon, Ourselves ; 4. Boys will be Girls ; 5. The Lady's Reeking Breath ; 6. Shakespeare's Timeless Women ; Suggestions for Further Reading

Informations supplémentaires

GOR005127577
9780198186946
0198186940
Shakespeare and Women Phyllis Rackin (Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Occasion - Bon état
Broché
Oxford University Press
20050526
180
Winner of *Choice* Outstanding Academic Book 2006.
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