The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.
Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeares plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day
Notes on Contributors x
Preface to the Second Edition xvii
Introduction 1
Dympna Callaghan
Part I The History of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism 19
1 The Ladies Shakespeare 21
Juliet Fleming
2 Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic 39
Katherine M. Romack
3 Misogyny Is Everywhere 60
Phyllis Rackin
Part II Text and Language 75
4 Feminist Editing and the Body of the Text 77
Laurie E. Maguire
5 Made to write whore upon?: Male and Female Use of the Word Whore in
Shakespeares Canon 98
Kay Stanton
6 A word, sweet Lucrece: Confession, Feminism, and The Rape of Lucrece
121
Margo Hendricks
Part III Social Economies 137
7 Gender, Class, and the Ideology of Comic Form: Much Ado about Nothing and
Twelfth Night 139
Mihoko Suzuki
8 Gendered Gifts in Shakespeares Belmont: The Economies of Exchange in
Early Modern England 162
Jyotsna G. Singh
Part IV Race and Colonialism 179
9 The Great Indian Vanishing Trick Colonialism, Property, and the Family
in A Midsummer Nights Dream 181
Ania Loomba
10 Black Ram, White Ewe: Shakespeare, Race, and Women 206
Joyce Green MacDonald
11 Sycorax in Algiers: Cultural Politics and Gynecology in Early Modern
England 226
Rachana Sachdev
12 Black and White, and Dread All Over: The Shakespeare Theatres
Photonegative Othello and the Body of Desdemona 244
Denise Albanese
Part V Performing Sexuality 267
13 Women and Boys Playing Shakespeare 269
Juliet Dusinberre
14 Mutant Scenes and Minor Conflicts in Richard II 281
Molly Smith
15 Lovesickness, Gender, and Subjectivity: Twelfth Night and As You Like It
294
Carol Thomas Neely
16 in the Lesbian Void: WomanWoman Eroticism in Shakespeares Plays 318
Theodora A. Jankowski
17 Duncans Corpse 339
Susan Zimmerman
Part VI Religion 359
18 Others and Lovers in The Merchant of Venice 361
M. Lindsay Kaplan
19 Between Idolatry and Astrology: Modes of Temporal Repetition in Romeo and
Juliet 378
Philippa Berry
Part VII Character, Genre, History 393
20 Putting on the Destined Livery: Isabella, Cressida, and our Virgin/Whore
Obsession 395
Anna Kamaralli
21 The Virginity Dialogue in Alls Well That Ends Well: Feminism, Editing,
and Adaptation 411
Rory Loughnane
22 Competitive Mourning and Female Agency in Richard III 428
Mario DiGangi
23 Bearing Death in The Winters Tale 440
Amy K. Burnette
24 Monarchs Who Cry: The Gendered Politics of Weeping in the English History
Play 457
Jean E. Howard
25 Shakespeares Women and the Crisis of Beauty 467
Farah Karim]Cooper
Part VIII Appropriating Women, Appropriating Shakespeare 481
26 Women and Land: Henry VIII 483
Lisa Hopkins
27 Desdemona: Toni Morrisons Response to Othello 494
Ayanna Thompson
28 Woman]Crafted Shakespeares: Appropriation, Intermediality, and Womanist
Aesthetics 507
Sujata Iyengar
29 A Thousand Voices: Performing Ariel 520
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Index 539
Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, New York. Her books inlcude Shakespeare Without Women (2000), The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Culture (2006), Shakespeares Sonnets (2007), Who Was William Shakespeare (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), and Hamlet: Language and Writing (2015). She is a past president of Shakespeare Association of America.
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