Bücher der Reihe Feminist Readings of Shakespeare

This text adopts a feminist analysis to examine gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as a point for departure, it argues that the change to a modern nation was connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender.

This full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays offers detailed readings and identifies sources which are then analyzed from a historical feminist perspective.