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Engendering a nation : a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories /

Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern natio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-
Otros Autores: Rackin, Phyllis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Colección:Feminist readings of Shakespeare.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry, Part III Richard III Richard II Henry V Engendering a Nation makes an original and topical contribution to the study of Shakespeare's history plays and is especially valuable to students and scholars with an interest in where feminist and historicist approaches to the Renaissance intersect. Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Pla.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index.
ISBN:0203205103
9780203205105
9780415047494
0415047498
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9786610323968
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