Product Description: Using a variety of approaches from new historicism to performance criticism, Kehler offers a detailed, feminist study of the thirty-one widow characters of Shakespeare's plays.

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Product Description: This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Problems in Literary Research is 'a reference guide that teaches,' offering students of literature and library science a clear and pedagogically effective presentation of 36 of the most useful works for the study of English and American literature...read more

Product Description: This anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal...read more