Bøker av 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.