Women in the Age of Shakespeare

This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare.

• Includes over 30 excerpts from letters and diaries, plays, poems, educational and religious treatises, and legal documents from the 16th and 17th centuries

• Presents photos of actors playing female Shakespearean characters, including Emma Thompson, Claire Danes, Sarah Bernhardt, and Peggy Ashcroft