Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare)

by Jean E. Howard (Author), Phyllis Rackin (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1997

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  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.