The Matter of difference : : materialist feminist criticism of Shakespeare / [electronic resource] / edited by Valerie Wayne.. — Ithaca, N.Y. : : Cornell University Press,, 1991.. — x, 277 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'What you will' : social mobility and gender in Twelfth night / Cristina Malcolmson -- Patrimony and patriarchy in The merchant of Venice / Carol Leventen -- Desire and the differences it makes / Valerie Traub -- Are there any women in King Lear? / Ann Thompson -- 'The swallowing womb' : consumed and consuming women in Titus andronicus / Marion Wynne-Davies -- Historical differences : misogyny and Othello / Valerie Wayne -- Defacing the feminine in Renaissance tragedy / Sara Eaton -- The world turned upside down : inversion, gender and the state / Peter Stallybrass -- Scripts and/versus playhouses : ideological production and the Renaissance public stage / Jean E. Howard -- Nostalgia and the 'Rise of English' : rhetorical questions / Stephen Foley -- A future for materialist feminist criticism? / Catherine Belsey.



ISBN: 0801426782 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801426780 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801499658 (paper : alk. paper) 9780801499654 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN: 91011163

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Characters--Women.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feminism and literature--History--England--16th century.
Literature and society--History--England--16th century.
Women and literature--History--England--16th century.
Feminist literary criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Materialism.

LC Class. No.: PR2991 / .M34 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 822.3/3