Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Introduction; K. Chedgzoy The Patriarchal Bard: Feminist Criticism and Shakespeare: King Lear and Measure for Measure; K. McLuskie Feminist Theory and the Editing of Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew Revisited; A. Thompson Woman's Alternative Shakespeares and Women's Alternatives to Shakespeare in Contemporary British Theatre; L. Goodman Gender and Nation: Anticipations of Modernity in the Second Tetralogy; J.E. Howard & P. Rackin How to Read The Merchant of Venice without being Heterosexist; A. Sinfield The Homoerotics of Shakespearean Comedy; V. Traub Mourning and Misogyny: Hamlet and the Final Progress of Elizabeth I; S. Mullaney He Do Cressida in Different Voices; B. Hodgdon Revolutions, Petty Tyranny and the Murderous Husband; F. Dolan Macbeth and the All-singing, All-dancing Plays of the Jacobean Witch-Vogue; D. Purkiss The Colour of Patriarchy: Critical Difference, Cultural Difference and Renaissance Drama; A. Loomba Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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KATE CHEDGZOY is Reader in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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KATE CHEDGZOY is Reader in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.