Women In Shakespeare
Women In Shakespeare
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Bind: Hardbound
Year: 2017
Pages: 284
Size: 140 x 216 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
It is in situations of “free play of the mind” (as happens in Shakespeare's comedies) that Shakespeare's women shine, and outshine, men. Rosalind or Portia, Hermia or Helena, each outshines their lovers as well as those against their love. They always remind us of the need to change the mind-set: “I would my father looked but with my eyes,” says Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also, for the life or strife in the political sphere, women in Shakespeare show better instinct and intelligence, if not greater passion for power, daring for destruction, or cunning for contrivance. Think of Lady Macbeth, Calphurnia, Cleopatra, and Juliet. All in all, Shakespeare seems to plead and promote the cause of women's rightful place both in private and public spheres. The present book stresses this particular aspect through essays included in it.
The book has essays selected out of 200 presentations at The Shakespeare Association's 5th annual international conference held at Kota (Rajasthan) on October4-6, 2012. Including a galaxy of senior scholars and young researchers, the volume presents a variety of perspectives built around the woman question in Shakespeare.
Target Audience:
Students and Academicians of English Literature/Shakespeare societies.
Contents:
HAPTER 1: Introduction — Bhim S. Dahiya
CHAPTER 2: Some Reflections on Shakespeare and Feminism — R.S. White
CHAPTER 3: The Women's Room: The Last Plays — Lisa Hopkins
CHAPTER 4: Shakespeare's Daughters and the Women in the Romances — R.W. Desai
CHAPTER 5: Feminist Shakespeare and the Affective Turn — Paul Budra
CHAPTER 6: ”Lineaments of Nature” or Imprints of a Real World” : A View of Women in Shakespeare — Anand Prakash
CHAPTER 7: Lear's Warrior Daughter: A Feminist Reading of Cordelia — Carena Sulzer
CHAPTER 8: ”Thy Undaunted Mettle”: Lady Macbeth and the Fear of a Masculine Woman — Tirthankar Das Purkayastha
CHAPTER 9: An Analysis of the Speech Events of Women Characters in Shakespeare “ A Study in Ethnography of Communication — R.N. Bakshi
CHAPTER 10: Many Persephones : Shakespeare's Heroines and Fading Memories of the Pomegranate — Rupindra-Guha Majumdar
CHAPTER 11: Women Ahead of Their Time: A Study of The Merchant of Venice — Monika Sethi
CHAPTER 12: Where does Feminism Go Wrong in Its Interpretation of Shakespeare” — Lovleen Mohan
CHAPTER 13: Shakespeare's Cleopatra: Historical or Romantic” — Hema Dahiya
CHAPTER 14: Controlling Fathers in a Mercantile World: A Task for Portia and Desdemona — Payal Nagpal
CHAPTER 15: ”...madly mated”: A Post-feminist Scrutiny of The Taming of the Shrew — Dr. Garima Gupta
CHAPTER 16: The Absent Mother in William Shakespeare's King Lear [1608, 1623] and Howard Barker's Seven Lears [1989] — Preeti Singh
About the Author:
Bhim S. Dahiya has taught English Literarture for over four decades at different universities in India and abroad. He has to his credit several books on Anglo-American Literature and higher education, including The Hero in Hemingway (1978), Poet-Critics on Shakespeare (1990), The University Autonomy in India (2002), A New History of English Literature (2005). He is the editor of the Journal of Drama Studies, an International Journal of Research in World Drama in English (including translation).
