Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama

by Karen Newman

Book Overview

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"