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Acknowledgements
IntroductionChapterone
The Woman’s Voice
Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s TaleChapter two
Kingship and the Male Body politic
Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard IIIInterlude: Interview with Adjoa Andoh
Chapter three
Testing the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender
Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew,Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends WellChapter four
Cross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s)
Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like ItInterlude: Interview with Lucy Phelps
Chapter five
Gendering Madness
Key Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble KinsmenChapter six
Paternity and Patriarchy
Key Text: King Lear, with The TempestChapter seven
Sexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender
Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles Chapter eightAnxious Masculinity
Key Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Chapter nine
Maternal Bodies: Female Powers
Key Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s TaleReferencesIndex