TY - JOUR
AU - Thompson, Ann
AB - Book Reviews 'Who is't can read a woman? Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama, BY PETER ERICKSON. California. £25.75. Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare, BY MARIANNE L. NOVY. University of North Carolina Press. £19.95. Attempts to read Shakespeare's women have become relatively popular in the decade since Juliet Dusinberre's seminal Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was published in 1975. Anyone working in this field needs to begin by reading at least half a dozen books, a cou- ple of anthologies and a large number of essays scattered through the periodicals. Some authors have concentrated on the representation of female characters (Irene Dash, Wooing, Wedding, and Power: Women in Shakespeare's Plays, 1981; Lisa Jardine, Still Harping on Daughters, 1983), some have considered gender divisions in a wider context (Marilyn French, Shakespeare's Division of Experience, 1981; Linda Bamber, Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare, 1982) and at least one has carried the battle into the enemy camp, as it were, by essaying a feminist reading of male characters (Coppelia Kahn, Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare, 1980). These new books by Peter Erickson and Marianne L. Novy are both well researched and thoughtful contribu- 
TI - Book Reviews-‘Who is't can read a woman?’
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/34.150.251
DA - 1985-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-who-is-t-can-read-a-woman-M8ybB7fiBQ
SP - 251
EP - 255
VL - 34
IS - 150
DP - DeepDyve
ER -