Author: Wayne, Valerie ; editor:
Title: The Matter of Difference : Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1991). orig.boards. 24x15cm, x,277 pp.. A crease to cover. Rear flyleaf crease. Light spine slope. Good. ¶ Contents: 'What You WIll': Social Mobility & Gender in ' Twelfth Night'; Patrimony & Patriarchy in 'The Merchant of Venice'; Desire & the Differences It Makes; Are There Any Women in 'King Lear'?; 'The Swallowing Womb': Consumed & Consuming Women in 'Titus Andronicus'; Historical Differences: Misogyny & 'Othello'; Defacing the Feminine in Renaissance Tragedy; The World Turned Upside Down: Inversion, Gender & the State; Scripts and/ versus Playhouses: Ideological Production & the Renaissance Public Stage; Nostalgia & the 'Rise of English': Rhetorical Questions; Afterword: A Future for Materialist Feminist Criticism?

Keywords: Literary Criticism, William Shakespeare, English Literature, Materialist, Feminist, , , ,