The Shakespearean Wild: Geography, Genus, and Gender

by Jeanne Addison Roberts

Socrates is said to have thanked the gods that he was born neither barbarian nor female nor animal. His words conjure up the image of a human being, a Greek male, at the center of the universe, surrounded by "wild" and threatening forces. To the?Western imagination the civilized standard has always been masculine, and taken for granted as so until recently. Shakespeare's works, for all their genius and astonishing empathy, are inevitably products...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238991
• ISBN13: 9780803238992
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.