Shakespeare's Widows
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Shakespeare's Widows

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare's Widows

About this book

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow them to elude mechanistic ideology. Kehler s book provides extensive historical background into the various religious and cultural attitudes towards widows in early modern England.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Precept and Practice
  11. 2 Exemplary "Seeming Widows"
  12. 3 Problematic Widowed Mothers
  13. 4 War Widows
  14. 5 Working Widows
  15. 6 Lusty Widows/Remarried Widows
  16. 7 Opting Out
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Works Cited
  20. Index

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