Shakespeare and Gender

Kate Aughterson is Academic Programme Leader for Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.Ailsa Grant Ferguson is Principal Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter oneThe Woman’s Voice Key Text: Much Ado About Nothing, with The Winter’s TaleChapter twoKingship and the Male Body politic Key Text: Richard II, with Henry IV part I, Henry V, Richard IIIInterlude: Interview with Adjoa AndohChapter threeTesting the Marriage Plot: Form, Violence and Gender Key Texts: The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well that ends WellChapter fourCross-dressing and Gender Transgression(s)Key Texts: Twelfth Night and As You Like ItInterlude: Interview with Lucy PhelpsChapter fiveGendering MadnessKey Text: Hamlet, with Two Noble KinsmenChapter sixPaternity and PatriarchyKey Text: King Lear, with The TempestChapter sevenSexual Excess: Space, Sex and Gender Key Texts: Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles Chapter eightAnxious MasculinityKey Texts: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, Chapter nineMaternal Bodies: Female PowersKey Texts: Henry VI, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s TaleReferencesIndex

This volume provides a thoughtful approach to a wide range of relevant issues through a combination of close reading, contextual non-fiction materials, and attention to recent performance and film. It will give students the tools they need to engage with the plays and will encourage them to make their own connections across traditional genres and periods.