| Description |
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Werner Gundersheimer -- Preface / Georgianna Ziegler -- Queen Victoria, Shakespeare, and the Ideal Woman (The Exhibition, Part I) / Georgianna Ziegler -- Shakespeare's Beauties Illustrated (The Exhibition, Part II) / Georgianna Ziegler -- "She is to enter now": the Heroines in the Plays (The Exhibition, Part III) / Georgianna Ziegler. Juliet: Romeo and Juliet. Mistresses Page and Ford, Anne Page: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Portia and Jessica: The Merchant of Venice. Katherine: The Taming of the Shrew. Rosalind and Celia: As You Like It. Beatrice: Much Ado About Nothing. Olivia and Viola: Twelfth Night. Ophelia: Hamlet. Lady Macbeth: Macbeth. Desdemona: Othello. Cleopatra: Antony and Cleopatra -- Turning the Century (The Exhibition, Part IV) / Georgianna Ziegler -- Recent Critical Approaches to Shakespeare's Heroines / Frances E. Dolan -- Are Shakespeare's Women Unruly? / Jeanne Addison Roberts |
| Notes |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Shakespeare's Unruly Women, presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., from February 18 through August 9, 1997"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-111) |
| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120913 -- Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003655
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000198
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| Subject |
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Exhibitions.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions.
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Women in literature -- Exhibitions.
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Women in art -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Dolan, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1960-
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Roberts, Jeanne Addison.
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| LC no. |
98103646 //r98 |
| ISBN |
0295976292 |
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