The Shakespearean wild : geography, genus, and gender
Examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how gender stereotypes are affixed to those distinctions. This book shows how the male vision of culture - exemplified in Shakespeare's work - has reduced, distorted, and oversimplified the potentiality of women.
Print Book, English, ©1991
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1991
ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803238992, 0803238991
22347743
THE WILD LANDSCAPE
Women and nature
The frightening forest
The forest comedies
The barren dream
The winderness colonized. ANIMALS AS AGENTS OF REVELATION
Value reversals
Evolving visions
Animal markers
The comic Alazon
The hunt of love
The erosion of conventions
Hidden hybrids
The disrupted chain of being
Madness
The New Order. CONFRONTING THE FEMALE WILD
Reluctance and delay
The male dilemmas
Reconciling sex and marriage
Teh fear of cuckoldry
The triangulation of desire
The imagined female
Female trinities
The "mothers" of Shakespeare's invention
Shades of the triple hecate