1st Edition
Women and Mobility on Shakespeare�s Stage Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes
By Elizabeth Mazzola
Copyright 2017
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order—Shakespeare was interested in such women’s plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare’s Cordelia and Perdita,... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Mobility and Fearless Flying
Chapter 1: Arden and Eden in As You Like It
Chapter 2 Going Rogue in Othello
Chapter 3 Enemy Fires in King Lear
Part II Migration and the Wider World
Chapter 4 Encrypted Genealogies and Bloody Napkins: Missing Mothers in As You Like It and Othello
Chapter 5 Heading Out and Heading Home
Chapter 6 "Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores"
Conclusion: How Many Daughters Make a Kingdom?
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Elizabeth Mazzola is a Professor of English at The City College of New York.
