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Book SynopsisThis anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies.
Trade Review... excellent feminist analyses of the limited typology of woman in Renaissance culture.... an important overview.... some of the best recent essays. * Rocky Mountain Review Of Language and Literature *
The collection's most valuable feature is its bibliographies... * American Behavioral Scientist *
Readers seeking both concrete applications of feminist approaches to Renaissance drama and succinct statements of the theoretical underpinnings of such approaches will find much of interest in this collection. * Seventeenth-Century News *
