Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order-of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon-from the emergent minority literatures. In this challenging study, Peter Erickson insists on bringing the two realms together. He asks: what impact does a revision of the literary canon have on Shakespeare's status?
Part One of his book is about Shakespeare on women. In analyses of several...
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