Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen

Shakespeare's most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries.

She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear’s daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life—from youth to old age—appears on stage. She is a wealth of insight into Shakespeare’s understanding of, and influence on, ideas of gender and sexuality, and she speaks by far the ...