Reading Shakespeare historically /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jardine, Lisa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Political and social views. Historicism. Literature and history > England > History > 16th century. Literature and society > England > History > 16th century. Social problems in literature. Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.

Table of Contents:

1. 'Why Should He Call Her Whore?': Defamation and Desdemona's case
2. 'No Offence i' th' World': Unlawful marriage in Hamlet
3. Cultural Confusion and Shakespeare's Learned Heroines: 'These are old paradoxes'
4. Twins and Travesties: Gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth Night
5. Reading and the Technology of Textual Affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear
6. Alien Intelligence: Mercantile exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
7. Companionate Marriage Versus Male Friendship: Anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama
8. Unpicking the Tapestry: The scholar of women's history as Penelope among her suitors
9. Conclusion: What happens in Hamlet?

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