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Title Women's re-visions of Shakespeare : on the responses of Dickinson, Woolf, Rich, H.D., George Eliot, and others / edited by Marianne Novy
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Remembering Shakespeare differently : H.D.'s by Avon River / Susan Stanford Friedman -- Margaret Laurence's Diviners and Shakespeare's Tempest : the uses of the past / Gayle Greene -- Adrienne Rich's re-vision of Shakespeare / Peter Erickson -- "Another Penelope" : Margaret Hutton reading William Shakespeare / Joan Hutton-Landis -- Toward a feminist Renaissance : woman-centering Shakespeare's tragedies / Natalie B. Strong and Carolyn R. Swift -- Reading as Lady Macbeth / Madelon Sprengnether -- Epilogue : remembering Shakespeare, revisiting ourselves / Carol Thomas Neely
Women's re-visions of Shakespeare 1664-1988 / Marianne Novy -- Explaining to her sisters : Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeaare / Susan J. Wolfson -- "Intercepting the dew-drop" : female readers and readings in Anna Jameson's Shakespearean criticism / Christy Desmet -- Miranda in the new world : The tempest and Charlotte Barnes's The forest princess / Mary Loeffelholz -- Coriolanus transformed : Charlotte Bronte's use of Shakespeare in Shirley / Margaret J. Arnold -- Daniel Deronda and George Eliot's female re-vision of Shakespeare / Marianne Novy -- "The Orient is in the West" : Emily Dickinson's reading of Antony and Cleopatra / Paula Bennett -- Virginia Woolf as Shakespeare's sister : chapters in a woman writer's autobiography / Christine Froula
Notes Early versions of several of these essays were presented at a Modern Language Association Convention Special Session in l983; others were prepared for a Special Session in l987, or for the seminar on Women's Responses to Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting of 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence.
Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Feminist literary criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women in literature.
Women -- Books and reading.
Author Novy, Marianne, 1945-
LC no. 89039088
ISBN 025201698X (alk. paper)
0252061144 (paperback: alk. paper)