Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Karen Newman

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By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity--both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men--was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226577090

ISBN13:9780226577098

Release Date:August 1991

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:202 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

16th Century 17th Century British & Irish Criticism & Theory Drama English Literature History & Criticism Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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