Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare)

Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare)

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppelia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue' Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists. "An exceptionally well-focused and significant reading of gender...." Language & Literature - English & American -Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No.8 Kahn, Coppélia