Shakespeare's Widows (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230617032)

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow them to elude mechanistic ideology. Kehler s book provides extensive historical background into the various religious and cultural attitudes towards widows in early modern England.

Author: D. Kehler
ISBN-10: 0230617034
ISBN-13: 9780230617032
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2009
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/04/2009 pg. 17
Choice 03/01/2010