Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women

by Coppélia Kahn

Overview

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'.
Plays featured include:
* Titus Andronicus
* Julius Caesar
* Antony and Cleopatra
* Coriolanus
* Cymbeline
Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective.
Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415054508
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/27/1997
Series:	Feminist Readings of Shakespeare
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

Kahn, Coppélia

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity in Lucrece Chapter 3. Titus Andronicus: The Daughter's Seduction, or, Writing is the Best Revenge Chapter 4. Mettle and Melting Spirits in Julius Caesar Chapter 5. Antony's Wound Chapter 6. Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Coriolanus Postscript: Cymbeline: Paying Tribute to Rome

Editorial Reviews

"An exceptionally well-focused and significant reading of gender...."
Language & Literature - English & American
-Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No.8

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