 | What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Characters -- Women; Women in literature; Femininity in literature; Social role in literature; Sex role in literature; Kathryn Schwarz considers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century narratives in which women willingly conform to social conventions. She argues that these acts of compliance construct a paradox of prescribed choice, which illuminates complex relationships between hierarchy and contract within heterosocial systems. Kathryn Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance. |
