Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 26 de set. 2005 - 464 pàgines First published in 1832, Shakespeare’s Heroines is a unique hybrid of Shakespeare criticism, women’s rights activism, and conduct literature. Jameson’s collection of readings of female characters includes praise for unexpected role models as varied as Portia, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth; her interpretations of these and other characters portray intellect, passion, political ambition, and eroticism as acceptable aspects of women’s behaviour. This inventive work of literary criticism addresses the problems of women’s education and participation in public life while also providing insightful, original, and entertaining readings of Shakespeare’s women. This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that places Shakespeare’s Heroines in the context of Jameson’s literary career and political life. Appendices include personal correspondence and other literary and political writings by Jameson, examples of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespeare criticism, and selections from Victorian conduct books. |
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... play, the passage, for” herself (Preface). That female reader at home provides Jameson with her guiding image for the teachable female: positioned in the domestic realm, but being carried outward by her imagina— tion and learning to ...
... reading. In fact,Jameson's representation of the entire Macbeth house— hold often strikingly recalls vignettes ofVictorian domesticity. With uncanny textual precision, Jameson emphasizes the play's domestic elements 28 INTRODUCTION.
... play's domestic elements to show the couple engaged in mundane household activities. She reads from surprising scenes to cull and then to collect admirable traits. For instance, in the scene that finds the Thane of Cawdor “on the verge ...
... play, and in critical trends. North tookJameson's inter— vention into the traditions of Shakespeare criticism quite seriously; when Characteristics was published, Blacku/ood's published a four—part review essay ofJameson's text (see ...
... play in the early nine— teenth century. Adrian Noble's 1986 Royal Shakespeare Company production ofMacbeth, for example, became a domes— tic drama about a childless couple when the actress Sinead Cusack began to focus on Lady Macbeth's ...
Continguts
Jamesons Writing on Women Work and Acting | 380 |
Jamesons Correspondence | 409 |
Contemporary Reviews of Characteristics of Women | 419 |
Conduct Books | 437 |
Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury Shakespeare Criticism | 444 |
Select Bibliography | 463 |