Bøger af Jean E. Howard

This text adopts a feminist analysis to examine gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as a point for departure, it argues that the change to a modern nation was connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender.

A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh.

Forgotten and ignored by English scholars, British idealism, although short-lived, has recently been rediscovered as an important philosophical movement in its own right.

Drawing on a wide range of plays, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.