Shakespearean tragedy and gender

Introduction: The Gendered subject of Shakespearean tragedy / Madelon Sprengnether

Part one: Tragic subjects.

History into tragedy: the case of Richard III / Phyllis Rackin

A Woman of letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus / Sara Eaton

'Documents in madness': reading madness and gender in Shakespeare's tragedies and early modern culture / Carol Thomas Neely

'Born of woman': fantasies of maternal power in Macbeth / Janet Adelman

'Magic of bounty': Timon of Athens, Jacobean patronage, and maternal power / Coppélia Kahn Part two: Implicating Othello.

Desdemona's disposition / Lena Cowen Orlin

'The Moor of Venice,' or the Italian on the Renaissance English stage / Margo Hendricks

The Heroics of marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi / Mary Beth Rose Part three: Shakespear our contemporary?

The Fatal Cleopatra / Carol Cook

What's love got to do with it? Reading the liberal humanist romance in Antony and Cleopatra / Linda Charnes

Shakespeare in my time and place / Shirley Nelson Garner

Leaving Shakespeare / Gayle Greene.