Women and Mobility on Shakespeare's Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes

by Elizabeth Mazzola

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing--lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order--Shakespeare was interested in such women's plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare's Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113862960X
• ISBN13: 9781138629608
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"