1st Edition
Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare
Chapter 1: "Our General’s Wife is Now the General": Desdemona and Emilia
Chapter 2: "But Yet A Woman": Lady Percy and Lady Mortimer
Chapter 3: "Think You I Am No Stronger Than My Sex": Portia and Calpurnia
Chapter 4: "In Time of Action": Andromache and Patroclus
Chapter 5: "Of A Woman Born": Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff
Chapter 6: "Thy Valiantness Was Mine": Virgilia and Volumnia as Military (In)Dependents
"My story being done": A Conclusion
Biography
Kelsey Ridge earned her PhD in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham in 2019. Her research concentrates on representations of the military, trauma, and gender/sexuality in English literature. She received her M.A. in English at University College London and her B.A. at Wellesley College. She has served as a dramaturg on opera and Shakespeare productions. She has published on The Tempest in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.
