ABSTRACT
Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include:
* King John
* Henry VI, Part I
* Henry VI, Part II
* Henry, Part III
* Richard III
* Richard II
* Henry V.
It will be a must for students and scholars interested in the cultural and social implications of Shakespeare today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I MAKING GENDER VISIBLE A re-viewing of Shakespeare’s history plays
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Part II WEAK KINGS, WARRIOR WOMEN, AND THE ASSAULT ON DYNASTIC AUTHORITY The first tetralogy and King John
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Part III GENDER AND NATION Anticipations of modernity in the second tetralogy