Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) - Softcover

"An exceptionally well-focused and significant reading of gender...." Language & Literature - English & American -Choice, April 1998 Vol. 35 No.8

In the first full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Coppelia Kahn brings to these texts a startling, critical perspective which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking behind 'Roman virtue' Plays featured include: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline Setting the Roman works in the dual context of the popular theatre and Renaissance humanism, the author identifies new sources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist perspective. Roman Shakespeare is written in an accessible style and will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and those interested in feminist theory, as well as classicists.