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Shakespearean power and punishment : a volume of essays
- Title
- Shakespearean power and punishment : a volume of essays / edited by Gillian Murray Kendall.
- Publication
- Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Kendall, Gillian Murray, 1956-
- Description
- 219 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Literature and society > England > History > 16th century
- Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Literature and state > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Measure for measure
- Power (Social sciences) in literature
- Women and literature > England > History > 16th century
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Political and social views
- Punishment in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Gillian Murray Kendall -- Revenge Comedy: Writing, Law, and the Punishing Heroine in Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Swetnam the Woman-Hater / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Cutting to the Heart of the Matter: Stabbing the Woman in Philaster and Cymbeline / Susanne Collier -- "Content with art"?: Seeing the Emblematic Woman in The Second Maiden's Tragedy and The Winter's Tale / Sara Eaton -- "I'll Pray to Increase Your Bondage": Power and Punishment in Measure for Measure / David McCandless -- Absolute Bodies, Absolute Laws: Staging Punishment in Measure for Measure / Arthur L. Little, Jr. -- The State of Life and the Power of Death: Measure for Measure / Robert N. Watson -- Flout 'em and Scout 'em and Scout 'em and Flout 'em: Prospero's Power and Punishments in The Tempest / Kathryn Barbour -- Overkill in Shakespeare / Gillian Murray Kendall -- The Unheimlich Maneuver: Antithetical Ways of Power in Shakespeare / Ronald R. Macdonald.
- ISBN
- 0838636799 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96050028
- OCLC
- 36046043
- ocm36046043
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries