The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Callaghan PART I: THEORIES Cleopatran Affinities: Hélène Cixous, Margaret Cavendish and the Writing of Dialogic Matter; J.Gil Harris Confessing Mothers: The Maternal Penitent in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy; H.Hirschfeld Feminist Criticism and the New Formalism: Early Modern Women and Literary Engagement; S.Roberts Ophelia's Sisters; R.S.White PART II: WOMEN Sex and the Early Modern City: Staging the Bawdy Houses of London; J.Howard Women, Gender, and the Politics of Location; K.Chedgzoy 'The 'diffrence . . . in degree': Social Rank and Gendered Expression'; K.A.Coles A New Fable of the Belly: Vulgar Curiosity and the Persian Lady's Loose Bodies; P.Allen Brown Construing Gender: Mastering Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew; P.Parker PART III: HISTORIES Hermione's Ghost: Catholicism, the Feminine, and the Undead; F.E.Dolan No Man's Elizabeth: Frances Yates and the History of History; D.Williams Women's Informal Commerce and the All-Male Stage; N.Korda Why did Widows Remarry? Remarriage, Male Authority, and Feminist Criticism; J.Panek 'I desire to be helde in your memory': Reading Penelope Rich Through Her Letters; G.Ioppolo Hormonal Conclusions; G.Kern Paster Index