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Special Issue 27: European Women in Early Modern Drama (2017)
Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction to European Women in Early Modern English Drama | |
Edel Semple, Ema Vyroubalová |
Articles
The Danish Romance Play: Fair Em, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, and Hoffman | |
Lisa Hopkins |
'She speaks poniards': Shakespearean Drama and the Italianate Leading Lady as Verbal Duellist | |
Eric Arthur Nicholson |
'I cannot speak your England': French Women in King John and Henry V | |
Elizabeth Pentland |
Wife, Whore, or Dutchwoman: Shifting Female Roles in The London Prodigal | |
Marianne Montgomery |
Intersecting Discourses of Race and Gender in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam | |
Evelyn Gajowski |
'A Whore You Are, Madam' or, the Binary That Wasn't: Female Dyads and Doubling in John Fletcher's The Chances and Women Pleased | |
Celia Caputi |
European Unions: The Spanish Wife and the Scottish Widow in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII and Ford's Perkin Warbeck | |
Steven Veerapen |
Afterword
Strangeness: Early Modern European Women and the Invention of Whiteness | |
Sujata Iyengar |

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