Women and Mobility on Shakespeare's Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes

ISBN-13: 9780367886936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Elizabeth Mazzola

Opis

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order—Shakespeare was interested in such women’s plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. <

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Mobility and Fearless Flying

Chapter 1: Arden and Eden in As You Like It

Chapter 2 Going Rogue in Othello

Chapter 3 Enemy Fires in King Lear

Part II Migration and the Wider World

Chapter 4 Encrypted Genealogies and Bloody Napkins: Missing Mothers in As You Like It and Othello

Chapter 5 Heading Out and Heading Home

Chapter 6 "Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores"

Conclusion: How Many Daughters Make a Kingdom?

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Elizabeth Mazzola is a Professor of English at The City College of New York.