Volume 28, Number 10 · June 11, 1981
Was Shakespeare a Chauvinist?
By Anne Barton
Shakespeare's Division of Experience
by Marilyn French
Summit Books, 376 pp., $15.95
Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare
by Coppélia Kahn
University of California Press, 238 pp., $17.50
Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning
by Norman Rabkin
University of Chicago Press, 165 pp., $16.00
At the small community college in Maine where she teaches, Mira, the heroine of Marilyn French's best-selling novel The Women's Room, is condemned to an endless round of Fairy Tales and Folklore, Grammar 12, and Composition 1-2. She doesn't seem able to get her hands on the Shakespeare course. This is probably just as well. Although Mira has come to suspect that 'everything' she ever read 'was lies,' Shakespeare's fifth acts strike her as particularly dishonest:
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