In this study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, the author brings to these texts a critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies behind Roman virtue. Plays featured include: Titus Andronicus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus and 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 historicized feminist perspective. This text should appeal to appeal to Shakespeare scholars and students, those interested in feminist theory, as well as Classicists.

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, CoppElia 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...

These autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work.

On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964 and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war effort,...

This book explores how Shakespeare is still alive as a global cultural icon, on the 400th anniversary of his death.