Cristina León Alfar

Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays (eBook, ePUB)

Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on six plays by William Shakespeare, early modern English court records, marital complaints and private letters, Cristina Leon Alfar identifies a series of cultural narratives that disclose the various motives for and strategies of men's accusations of adultery and women's practical and cogent answers. In Shakespeare, Cuckoldry, and Women, Alfar explores the enabling function of bonds between women that allows them to work against the violent power of the men and to alter the dramatic direction, energy, and matter of the plays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134773459
• Artikelnr.: 47888254

Autorenporträt

Cristina León Alfar is Professor of Shakespeare, Early Modern English drama, and Women's and Gender Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. Her first book, Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy, was published by the U of Delaware P in 2003. Her third book, Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, edited with Emily G. Sherwood, documents Mistress Bourne's petition for divorce, its resolution, and ongoing disputes (forthcoming from Routledge 2021). She is co-editor, with Helen Ostovich, of the series "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture" for MIP. Currently, she is at work on women parrhesiasts in early modern English drama.