Women in the Age of Shakespeare
Book Details
Author(s)
Theresa D. Kemp
Publisher
Greenwood
ISBN / ASIN
0313343047
ISBN-13
9780313343049
Availability
In stock. Usually ships within 2 to 3 days.
Sales Rank
#1,273,101
Category
History
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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
