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What you will : gender, contract, and Shakespearean social space /

Kathryn Schwarz considers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century narratives in which women willingly conform to social conventions. She argues that these acts of compliance construct a paradox of prescribed choice, which illuminates complex relationships between hierarchy and contract within heterosocia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwarz, Kathryn, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Virtue trouble
  • Willing women
  • Willful speech: metonymy and mastery
  • Acts of will: misogyny and masquerade
  • "My intents are fix'd": constant will in All's well that ends well
  • "Will in overplus": recasting misogyny in the sonnets
  • "Twixt will and will not": chastity and fracture in Measure for measure
  • "Fallen out with my more headier will": dislocation in King Lear
  • Epilogue: Or: the Roman matron.