The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstan

The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medi