Time and gender on the Shakespearean stage /
This book analyzes the cultural and theatrical intersections of early modern temporal concepts and gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, across the genres of domestic comedy, city comedy and revenge tragedy, Sarah Lewis shows...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The actions and delays of gendered temporalities
- Virtuous delay : the enduring patient wife
- Transgressive action : the impatient prodigal husband
- Waiting and taking : the temporally conflicted revenger
- The delay's the thing : patience, prodigality and revenge in venge in Hamlet
- Conclusion: Echoes.