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Women of Will: The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
Women of Will The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays Author:Tina Packer From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, a fierce, funny exploration--part master class, part brilliant analysis--of the women of Shakespeare's plays that illuminates for us his changing understanding of the feminine and reveals some of his deepest insights. — Beginning with Shakespeare's early work, including t... more »he early comedies (The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love's Labour's Lost) and early histories (Henry VI: Parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III), Tina Packer writes of his journey becoming a playwright and actor, and the role of the theatre in Elizabethan England. She explores Romeo and Juliet as a foundation for Shakespeare's deeper understanding of the relationship between men and women as well as the continuation of the sexual/spiritual story of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing andTroilus and Cressida, and which has its supreme manifestation in Antony and Cleopatra. She wrestles with Shakespeare's middle period: with Isabella in Measure for Measure, with Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It, and Othello, giving us a clear picture of the constraints put upon the women of these plays as they articulate the truth about what they see and feel . . . She asks--and answers--what happens when women want the same power as men, and examines Macbeth, Coriolanus, and King Lear.« less
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