Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Title Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Fiona Ritchie
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 267
Release 2014-06-02
Genre Drama
ISBN 1107046300

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This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

Citoyennes

Citoyennes
Title Citoyennes PDF eBook
Author Annie Smart
Publisher University of Delaware
Pages 273
Release 2011-12-23
Genre History
ISBN 1611493552

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Did women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women – the ideal of civic motherhood. Smart asserts that women were portrayed as possessing civic virtue, and as promoting the values and ideals of the public sphere. Contemporary critics have theorized that the eighteenth-century ideal of the Republic intentionally excluded women from the public sphere. According to this perspective, a discourse of “Rousseauean” domestic motherhood stripped women of an active civic identity, and limited their role to breastfeeding and childcare. Eighteenth-century France marked thus the division between a male public sphere of political action and a female private sphere of the home. Citoyennes challenges this position and offers an alternative model of female identity. This interdisciplinary study brings together a variety of genres to demonstrate convincingly that women were portrayed as civic individuals. Using foundational texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or on Education (1762), revolutionary gouaches of Lesueur, and vaudeville plays of Year II of the Republic (1793/1794), this study brilliantly shows that in text and image, women were represented as devoted to both the public good and their families. In addition, Citoyennes offers an innovative interpretation of the home. Through re-examining sphere theory, this study challenges the tendency to equate the home with private concerns, and shows that the home can function as a site for both private life and civic identity. Citoyennes breaks new ground, for it both rectifies the ideal of domestic Rousseauean motherhood, and brings a fuller understanding to how female civic identity operated in important French texts and images.

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Title Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Fiona Ritchie
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 469
Release 2012-04-19
Genre Drama
ISBN 0521898609

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This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

Everyday Revolutions

Everyday Revolutions
Title Everyday Revolutions PDF eBook
Author Diane E. Boyd
Publisher Associated University Presse
Pages 288
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 9780874130072

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Women's everyday choices can engender revolutionary acts. This collection gathers essays that build upon this premise and examines the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied not only the restrictions their own culture sought to enforce, but also the restrictions our historical and literary understandings have created.

Shakespeare and Women

Shakespeare and Women
Title Shakespeare and Women PDF eBook
Author Phyllis Rackin
Publisher
Pages 179
Release 2005
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198186940

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Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged. In so doing, this book seeks to challenge currently prevalent views of Shakespeare's women-both the women he depicted in his plays and the women he encountered in the world he inhabited. Chapter 1, "A Usable History," analyses the implications and consequences of the emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression that has dominated recent feminist Shakespeare scholarship, while subsequent chapters propose alternative models for feminist analysis. Chapter 2, "The Place(s) of Women in Shakespeare's World," emphasizes the frequently overlooked kinds of social, political, and economic agency exercised by the women Shakespeare would have known in both Stratford and London. Chapter 3, "Our Canon, Ourselves," addresses the implications of the modern popularity of plays such as The Taming of the Shrew which seem to endorse women's subjugation, arguing that the plays--and the aspects of those plays--that we have chosen to emphasize tell us more about our own assumptions than about the beliefs that informed the responses of Shakespeare's first audiences. Chapter 4, "Boys will be Girls," explores the consequences for women of the use of male actors to play women's roles. Chapter 5, "The Lady's Reeking Breath," turns to the sonnets, the texts that seem most resistant to feminist appropriation, to argue that Shakespeare's rewriting of the idealized Petrarchan lady anticipates modern feminist critiques of the essential misogyny of the Petrarchan tradition. The final chapter, "Shakespeare's Timeless Women," surveys the implication of Shakespeare's female characters in the process of historical change, as they have been repeatedly updated to conform to changing conceptions of women's nature and women's social roles, serving in ever-changing guises as models of an unchanging, universal female nature.

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Title Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel PDF eBook
Author Kate Rumbold
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 259
Release 2016-03-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316477894

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The eighteenth century has long been acknowledged as a pivotal period in Shakespeare's reception, transforming a playwright requiring 'improvement' into a national poet whose every word was sacred. Scholars have examined the contribution of performances, adaptations, criticism and editing to this process of transformation, but the crucial role of fiction remains overlooked. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel reveals for the first time the prevalence, and the importance, of fictional characters' direct quotations from Shakespeare. Quoting characters ascribe emotional and moral authority to Shakespeare, redeploy his theatricality, and mock banal uses of his words; by shaping in this way what is considered valuable about Shakespeare, the novel accrues new cultural authority of its own. Shakespeare underwrites, and is underwritten by, the eighteenth-century novel, and this book reveals the lasting implications for both of their reputations.

Engaging with Shakespeare

Engaging with Shakespeare
Title Engaging with Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Marianne Novy
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1998
Genre Authorship
ISBN 9780877456506

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Originally published in 1994 by the University of Georgia Press, a study of the influence of Shakespeare on women novelists from the late eighteenth century onwards, with particular reference to George Eliot.