{"product_id":"the-girlhood-of-shakespeares-heroines-mary-cowden-clarke-9781108001274","title":"The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: Volume 2","description":"Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-98) was the daughter of the publisher Vincent Novello. She produced a complete concordance to Shakespeare's works in 1845, and her fascination with the plays led to her publishing in 1850 a series of imaginative accounts of the girlhood of some of his heroines. Her motive was 'to imagine the possible circumstances and influences of scene, event, and associate, surrounding the infant life of his heroines, which might have conduced to originate and foster those germs of character recognised in their maturity as by him developed; to conjecture what might have been the first imperfect dawnings of that which he has shown us in the meridian blaze of perfection'. These 'prequels' offer a back-story which is surprising in its subversive interpretation of the plays and especially of the role of the 'hero'. Volume 2 includes the stories of Ophelia and Juliet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Cowden Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1108001270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781108001274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.04d","brand":"Mary Cowden Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47423413190911,"sku":"9781108001274","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db90ffc6-5be9-4b81-b155-0d02c086f494.jpg?v=1761528577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-girlhood-of-shakespeares-heroines-mary-cowden-clarke-9781108001274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}