Cavendish and Shakespeare: interconnections

"The essays trace Shakespeare's influence on Cavendish, explore the political implications of Cavendish's contribution to Shakespeare's reputation, and investigate the politics of influence more generally. The collection covers topics ranging from Cavendish's strategic use of Shakespeare to establish her own reputation to her adaptation of Shakespeare's martial imagery, moral philosophy, and marriage plots, as well as the conventions of cross dressing on stage. Other topics include Shakespeare and Cavendish read aloud; Cavendish's formally hybrid appropriation of Shakespearean comedy and tragedy; her transformation of Shakespearean women on trial; and her re-imagining of Shakespearean models of sexuality and pleasure."--Jacket.

Includes index.

"Thou art a moniment, without a tombe" : affiliation and memorialization in Margaret Cavendish's plays and plays, never before printed / Shannon Miller -- Shakespeare, Cavendish, and reading aloud in seventeenth-century England / James Fitzmaurice -- Drama's olio : a new way to serve old ingredients in the religious and the matrimonial trouble / Erna Kelly -- Dining at the table of sense : Shakespeare, Cavendish, and the convent of pleasure / Brandie R. Siegfried -- Testifying in the court of public opinion : Margaret Cavendish reworks, The winter's tale / Alex Bennett -- Gender, the political subject, and dramatic authorship : Margaret Cavendish's loves adventures and the Shakespearean example / Mihoko Suzuki -- Old playwrights, old soldiers, new martial subjects : the Cavendishes and the drama of soldiery / Vimala C. Pasupathi -- Enlarging Margaret : Cavendish, Shakespeare, and French women warriors and writers / Amy Scott-Douglass -- The unnatural tragedy and familial absolutisms / Karen Raber -- "I wonder she should be so infamous for a whore?" : Cleopatra restored / Katherine Romack.