Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

by Dympna Callaghan (Editor)

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken by all-women team of contributors to A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.

Genres: Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Feminism, Nonfiction, Academic

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Dr. Dympna C. Callaghan is Professor of English at Syracuse University. Her expertise is in the playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. She was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2012-13.

Callaghan has held fellowships at the Folger, Huntington, and Newberry Libraries, at the Getty Research Centrer in Los Angeles, and at the Bogliasco Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria, Italy. She is a member of the editorial team of A/S/I/A, the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive and and co-editor of the Palgrave Shakespeare book series.