Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare)

Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) by Kahn, Coppelia. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415054515.

In the first full-length study of Shakespeares Roman plays, Coppelia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind Roman virtue Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.