A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Abstract

List of Contributors. Introduction: Dympna Callaghan. Part I: The history of feminist Shakespeare criticism:1. The Ladies' Shakespeare: Juliet Fleming. 2. Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic: Katherine M. Romack. 3. Misogyny is Everywhere: Phyllis Rackin. Part II: Text and Language:4. Feminist Editing and the Body of the Text: Laurie E Maguire. 5. Made to write 'whore' Upon? : Male and Female Use of the Word Whore in Shakespeare's Canon: Kay Stanton. 6. A word, Sweet Lucrece: Confession, Feminism and The Rape of Lucrece: Margo Hendricks. Part III: Social Economies:7. Gender, Class, and the Ideology of Comic Form, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night: Mihoko Suzuki. 8. Gendered 'Gifts' in Shakespeare's Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in Early Modern England: Jyotsna G. Singh. Part IV: Race and Colonialism:9. The Great Indian Vanishing Trick-Colonialism, Property and the Family in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Ania Loomba. 10. Black Ram, White Ewe: Shakespeare, Race, and Women: Joyce Green MacDonald. 11. Sycorax in Algiers: Cultural Politics and Gynecology in Early Modern England: Rachana Sachdev. 12. Black and White and Dread All Over: The Shakespeare Theater's Photonegative Othello and the body of Desdemona: Denise Albanese. Part V: Performing Sexuality:13. Women and Boys Playing Shakespeare: Juliet Dusinberre. 14. Mutant Scenes and 'Minor' Conflicts in Richard II: MollySmith. 15. Lovesickness, Gender, and Subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As You Like It: Carol Thomas Neely. 16. In the Lesbian Void: Woman-Woman Eroticism in Shakespeare's Plays: Theodora Jankowski. 17. Duncan's Corpse: Susan Zimmerman. Part VI: Religion:18. Others and Lovers in The Merchant of Venice: M. Lindsay Kaplan. 19. Between Idolatry and Astrology: Modes of Temporal Repetition in Romeo and Juliet: Philippa Berry. Index.