Fiona Mcneill

Poor Women in Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An unusual study of the representation of poor and homeless women in Shakespeare's plays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781107405936
• ISBN-10: 1107405939
• Artikelnr.: 35892026

Autorenporträt

Fiona McNeill is a former professor and private book developer and holds a PhD on the subject of Shakespeare. She is the author of Ten Steps to an A.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: maid, wife, and widow: re-organizing early modern women
1. Free and bound maids: poor women in early industrial England
2. Pregnant maids: the new bastardy laws
3. Playhouse, courtroom, and pulpit: poor women in the news
4. Masterless women in early modern London
5. Poor women in the New World
Bibliography.