Gender Identity | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Brown, Steve. "The Boyhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: Notes on Gender Ambiguity in the Sixteenth Century." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 30, No. 2 (Spring 1990): 243-63. Discusses Elizabethan notions of male sexuality and homosexuality.
Fiedler, Leslie A. "The Woman as Stranger: or 'None but women left...'." In The Stranger in Shakespeare, pp. 43-81. New York: Stein and Day, 1972.
Surveys Shakespeare's use of women as types or fictional "others"—foreigners, whores, and witches.
Jardine, Lisa. "'As boys and women are for the most part cattle of this colour': Female Roles and Elizabethan Eroticism." In Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare, pp. 9-36. Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1983.
Examines the eroticism and homoeroticism elicited by Shakespeare's transvestite heroines.
Maguire, Laurie E. "'Household Kates': Chez Petruchio, Percy and...
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