Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Women and revenge in Shakespeare Women and revenge in Shakespeare Marguerite A. Tassi Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare’s women and finds bold answers to questi… OL15414742W
Shakespeare's great stage of fools Shakespeare's great stage of fools Robert H. Bell "This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare'… OL16983911W
Shakespeare's secret schemers Shakespeare's secret schemers Richard A. Levine "Shakespeare's Secret Schemers establishes the existence of a dramatic device in Shakespeare and indicates its presence in the non-Shakespearean drama of the period as well. The secret scheming of th… OL18149035W
Naming thy name Naming thy name Elaine Scarry "Shakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language to date. But … OL20040293W
As she likes it As she likes it Penny Gay As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique in both Shakespearian and feminist st… OL3143534W
Shylock is Shakespeare Shylock is Shakespeare Kenneth Gross Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare’s most complex and idiosync… OL4321020W
Shakespeare's domestic economies Shakespeare's domestic economies Natasha Korda "Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Win… OL5956246W
Shakespeare jungle fever Shakespeare jungle fever Arthur L. Little "This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever" - in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume th… OL7798052W
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Thomas MacFaul Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their … OL8332646W