Books in the Feminist Readings of Shakespeare series

This text adopts a feminist analysis to examine gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as a point for departure, it argues that the change to a modern nation was connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender.

This full-length study of Shakespeare's Roman plays offers detailed readings and identifies sources which are then analyzed from a historical feminist perspective.

In this text, the author Philippa Berry rewrites critical perceptions of death in Shakespeare's tragedies from a feminist perspective, drawing on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory.