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Kahn, Coppelia

Roman Shakespeare: warriors, wounds and women - London Routledge 1997 - xviii,190p. - Feminist Readings of Shakespeare .

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppélia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue'.
Plays featured include:
* Titus Andronicus
* Julius Caesar
* Antony and Cleopatra
* Coriolanus
* Cymbeline
Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective.
Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.

ISBN: 0415054516

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English Literature
English Drama
Masculinity in literature
Women in literature
Sex role in literature
Wounds and injuries in literature
English drama--Roman influences
Feminism and literature
Heroes in literature

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33 / KAH/R