This 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.

About the Author
Dorothea Kehler, Professor of English at San Diego State University, is the author of Problems in Literary Research (Scarecrow, 1987) and some twenty essays and notes on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers. Susan Baker, Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, has published on Renaissance drama in such journals as Texas Studies in Literature and Language and Comparative Drama and a book-length study of subjectivity in Shakespeare.

Reviews
... 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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780810824188
Author Dorothea Kehler
Format Hardback
Page Count 351
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm