Poor women in Shakespeare
Poor women do not fit easily into the household in Shakespeare. They shift in and out of marriages and households; never the main character but always evoking the ever-present problem of female poverty in early modern England. This book considers how their dramas are played out in the plays of Shakespeare.
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2007
XI, 255 p. ill. 24 cm.
9780521868860, 0521868866
1014527812
Introduction: maid, wife, and widow: re-organizing early modern women; 1. Free and bound maids: poor women in early industrial England; 2. Pregnant maids: the new bastardy laws; 3. Playhouse, courtroom, and pulpit: poor women in the news; 4. Masterless women in early modern London; 5. Poor women in the New World; Bibliography.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006037411.html