The Merry Wives of Windsor (eBook, PDF)

New Critical Essays
Redaktion: Gajowski, Evelyn; Rackin, Phyllis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare's weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book's sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317698357
• Artikelnr.: 41692224

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Gajowski is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Phyllis Rackin is Professor of English Emerita, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Historical Survey
Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski Part 1: Female Community / Female Agency 1. Agonistic Scenes of Provincial Life
Catherine Belsey 2. "Let's Consult together": Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Cristina León Alfar 3. "Who hath got the right Anne?": Gossip
Resistance
and Anne Page in Shakespeare's Merry Wives
Rachel Prusko 4. "May we
with the Warrant of Womanhood and the witness of a good conscience
pursue him with any further revenge?": Feminist Citizen Revenge Comedy in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Susan Gushee O'Malley Part 2: Theatrical Alternatives 5. Sharp-Tongued Women and Small-Town Social Relations in Porter's Two Angry Women of Abington and Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
Jean E. Howard 6. Shakespeare's Quantum Physics: Merry Wives as a Feminist 'Parallel Universe' of 2 Henry IV
Kay Stanton 7. Bucking Tradition in The Merry Wives of Windsor
1602: Not a Bad Quarto
Really
Helen Ostovich Part 3: Social and Theatrical Contexts 8. Teaching Children Their Behaviors in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Jennifer Higginbotham 9. A French Physician in an English Community
Barbara Traister Part 4: Desire / Sexuality 10. Finding Desire in Windsor: Gender
Consumption
and Animality in Merry Wives
Wendy Wall 11. Hysterical Shakespeare: Celebrations of Merry Sexuality
Jessica McCall 12. "Preposterous" Actions and "Tainted" Desires in The Merry Wives of Windsor
Carolyn E. Brown Part 5: Nature 13. Falstaff Becomes the (Hu)man at the Expense of The Merry Wives of Windsor
Rebecca Ann Bach 14. "Cabbage and Roots" and the Difference of Merry Wives
Rebecca Laroche Part 6: Performance 15. Young Falstaff and the Performance of Nostalgia
Adrian Kiernander 16. Queerly Wiving It in Windsor: Shakespeare
John Dennis
and Alison Carey
David McCandless 17. Theatrical Afterlives
Irene G. Dash