1st Edition
Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neither Silent nor Obedient: Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays
Chapter One: Early Modern Women’s Narratives of Marital Betrayal
Chapter Two: ‘A woman of quick sense’: Women’s Agency in Troilus and Cressida and The Merry Wives of Windsor
Chapter Three: ‘Manhood is melted into curtsies’: Shifting Masculine Honor in Much Ado about Nothing
Chapter Four: ‘An essence that’s not seen’ or ‘an odious damned lie’: The Ethics of Competing Narratives in Othello
Chapter Five: ‘Paper bullets of the brain’: Revising the Cuckoldry Play in The Winter’s Tale and Cymbeline
Post Script
Index
Biography
Cristina León Alfar is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY, USA.
