Shakespeare A to Z | Feminist Interpretations
In 1980 a book called The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare was published. This collection of 18 essays—all about women, and all but two written by women—marked a major new direction in the field of Shakespeare criticism. Feminist readings of the plays not only directed the reader’s attention toward Shakespeare’s female characters but also shifted the entire focus of literary analysis from the “universal” to the “individual.”
ORIGINS OF FEMINIST CRITICISM. Until the 1970s the famous Shakespeare critics were almost exclusively male, and they...
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