What You Will : : Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space / / Kathryn Schwarz.
In What You Will Kathryn Schwarz traces a curious pattern in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century representations of femininity: women pose a threat when they conform too willingly to social conventions. Exemplary texts describe chaste women who kill their rapists, constant wives who make marriage a d...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Citation
- Introduction: Virtue Trouble
- Chapter One. Willing Women
- Chapter Two. Willful Speech: Metonymy and Mastery
- Chapter Three. Acts of Will: Misogyny and Masquerade
- Chapter Four. ''My Intents Are Fix'd'': Constant Will in All's Well That Ends Well
- Chapter Five. ''Will in Overplus'': Recasting Misogyny in the Sonnets
- Chapter Six. ''Twixt Will and Will Not'': Chastity and Fracture in Measure for Measure
- Chapter Seven. ''Fallen Out With My More Headier Will'': Dislocation in King Lear
- Epilogue. Or: The Roman Matron
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments