The Woman's Part
Subtitle: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
Contributors: Carolyn Lenz (Editor); Gayle Greene (Editor); Carol Neely (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 1, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780252007514
Subjects: Shakespeare; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare; Shakespeare, William; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 1564-1616; 16th century; Characters; England; Feminism and literature; Feminist literary criticism; History; Shakespeare, William,; Women; Women and literature; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Despite all the ink spilled on inventing fanciful histories for Falstaff with Mowbray, Hamlet at Wittenberg, and the like, it is Shakespeare's women, rather than his men, who have most consistently moved his readers to a peculiarly cloying, gossipy condescension.