Shakespeare and gender / edited with an introduction by Stephen Orgel and Sean Keilen.

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors:	Orgel, Stephen, Keilen, Sean
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
Series:	Shakespeare, the critical complex ; 2.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning. Psychology. Sex differences (Psychology) in literature. Drama > Psychological aspects. Gender identity in literature. Masculinity in literature. Femininity in literature. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Men in literature. Sex in literature. Femininities. Gender expression.

Table of Contents:

Cultural confusion and Shakespeare's learned heroines: "These are old paradoxes"/ Lisa Jardine
"Shaping fantasies": Figurations of gender and power in Elizabethan culture/ Louis Adrian Montrose
Androgyny, mimesis, and the marriage of the boy heroine on the English Renaissance stage/ Phyllis Rackin
Queering the Shakespearean family/ Mario DiGangi
Jewels, statues, and corpses: Containment of female erotic power in Shakespeare's plays/ Valerie Traub
Fathering herself: a source study of Shakespeare's feminism/ Claier McEachern
"Children of Divers kind": a reading of Romeo and Juliet/ John B. Harcourt
On not being deceived: Rhetoric and the body in Twelfth Night/ Lorna Hutson
In the field of dreams: Transvestitism in Twelfth Night and The Crying Game/ Jonathan Crewe
"Magic of bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean patronage, and maternal power/ Coppelia Kahn
"You must eat men": The sodomitic economy of Renaissance patronage/ Jody Greene
Portia's Ring: Unruly women and structures of exchange in The Merchant of Venice/ Karen Newman
The Shakespearean editor as shrew-tamer/ Leah Marcus
Textual and sexual criticism: a crux in The Comedy of Errors/ Gary Taylor.

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