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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwarz, Kathryn, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Sex role in literature.
Social role in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Women in literature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Frau > Motiv
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
"Multi-User"
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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