Women in Power in the Early Modern Drama |
Contents
Theorizing and Repoliticizing Feminist Theory in Early Modern Studies | 1 |
Women in Early Modern England Privileges and Restraints | 22 |
The Body Natural and the Body Politic Early Modern Political Theory and the Anomaly of the Woman Ruler | 54 |
The Power beside the Throne William Shakespeares Joan la Pucelle Margaret of Anjou and Volumnia | 77 |
Privileging the Body Natural John Lylys Sapho and Phao and Christopher Marlowes Dido Queen of Carthage | 122 |
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