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What Rosalind Likes - Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse (Hardcover)
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What Rosalind Likes - Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse (Hardcover)
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What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan
responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a
shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and
storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these
people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the
details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught
up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and
power, where too much alliteration, for example, could destabilize
your gender or pose a threat to national security. Situated in the
crucial final two decades of the sixteenth century, What Rosalind
Likes takes three figures named "Rosalind" in works by Spenser (The
Shepheardes Calender), Lodge (Rosalynde), and Shakespeare (As You
Like It) to create a new approach to literary history and feminist
criticism. The development and emergence of Rosalind as one of the
most famous and beloved characters in the Shakespeare canon is thus
connected to the troubled history of Virgilian reception, to
tensions between aesthetics and sexual empowerment and
powerlessness, to methodology associated with postcritique,
including surface reading and the valorization of negative
emotions, and to queer theology. The book ends by thinking about
Rosalind with respect to the poetry of Mary Wroth, and examining
depictions of Rosalind on stage and screen by Dora Jordan and
Katharine Hepburn.
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