The body as text in Shakespeare's plays
Subtitle: the fashioning of the sexes
By: Xenia Georgopoulou ; with a foreword by John Jowett
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780773416024
Subjects: Identity (Psychology) in literature; Women in literature; Human body in literature; Sex differences (Psychology) in literature; Characters; Man-woman relationships in literature; Women; Patriarchy in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexuality and textuality : an introduction; title: The fashioning of the female body : fluidity and the humours; title: Intersexual relationships : female body and male self; title: The reinstatement of male power : humiliation and punishment; title: The vindication of the woman : towards a positive stereotype.