Shakespeare's Widows

by Dorothea Kehler

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230617034
• ISBN13: 9780230617032
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"