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FURTHER READING

Adelman, Janet. "'Born of Woman': Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth." In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance, edited by Majorie Garber, pp. 90-121. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 216 p.

Explores the tension in Macbeth between male fear of "a virtually absolute and destructive maternal power and the fantasy of absolute escape from this universal condition." In this play male identity is lost when men are faced with powerful maternal characters and regained only when women have been eliminated.

Andresen-Thom, Martha. "Thinking about Women and Their Prosperous Art: A Reply to Juliet Dusinberre's Shakespeare and the Nature of Women." Shakespeare Studies XI (1978): 259-76.

Examines the issue of whether Shakespeare's women characters are either idealizations or relatively realistic depictions of the women of his era.

Barton, Anne. "The Feminist Stage."...

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1. Introduction
2. Overviews
3. Types Of Shakespearean Women Characters
4. Gender Issues
5. Performance Issues
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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