Cross-Cultural Performances
Subtitle: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252063237
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Shakespeare; Social Science / Women's Studies; Plays / Drama; 1564-1616; Adaptations; Authorship; Characters; England; Feminism and literature; History and criticism; Literature; Sex differences; Shakespeare, William,; Women authors; Literary Criticism
First sentence: In her introduction to Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare, Marianne Novy calls attention to an early example of a woman writer, Aphra Behn, using a cultural image of Shakespeare "to her own advantages."