What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space

by Kathryn Schwarz

In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a debilitating obligation, and devoted mothers who destroy the fitness of children. These cautionary tales draw attention to the more ordinary,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243277
• ISBN13: 9780812243277
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"