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Women in Shakespeare A Dictionary ‘This encyclopaedic and critically sophisticated survey of women and womanhood in Shakespeare offers a uniquely invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.’ Professor Stanley Wells, CBE, Chairman, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-u pon-Avon, UK Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary is a comprehensive reference guide to Shakespeare and women. An A–Z of more than 350 entries explores the role of women within Shakespearean drama, how women were represented on the Shakespearean stage, and the role of women in Shakespeare’s personal and professional lives. Women in Shakespeare examines in detail the language employed by Shakespeare in his representation of women in the full range of his poetry and plays and the implications these representations have for the position of women in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Women in Shakespeare is an ideal guide to Shakespeare’s women for all students and scholars of Shakespeare. Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at Lancaster University, UK. CONTINUUM SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARY SERIES Series Editor Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College, University of London) Class and Society in Shakespeare Paul Innes Military Language in Shakespeare Charles Edelman Shakespeare’s Books Stuart Gillespie Shakespeare’s Legal Language B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol Shakespeare’s Non-S tandard English N. F. Blake Shakespeare’s Political and Economic Language Vivian Thomas Shakespeare’s Religious Language R. Chris Hassel Jr. Shakespeare’s Theatre Hugh Macrae Richmond Forthcoming: Shakespeare’s Demonology Marion Gibson Shakespeare’s Insults Nathalie Vienne-G uerrin Shakespeare and the Language of Food Joan Fitzpatrick CONTINUUM SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARY SERIES Women in Shakespeare A Dictionary ALISON FINDLAY Continuum The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Alison Findlay 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Alison Findlay has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identifi ed as Author of this work. British Library Cataloguing-i n-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0 -8264-5889-6 (hardback) Library of Congress Cataloguing-i n-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Pindar NZ, Auckland, New Zealand Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group Contents Acknowledgements vii List of Abbreviations viii Series Editor’s preface x Introduction xi A– Z 1 Bibliography 485 Index 527 v This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements Women in Shakespeare has been ongoing through a period in which I was complet- ing another project, then acting as Head of Department followed by two terms sabbatical leave in 2007–8, and fi nally a year’s teaching in 2008–9. These different environments of management, teaching and personal research have all contrib- uted to my appreciation of Shakespeare’s work while writing the dictionary. My fi rst thanks must be to Sandra Clark, General Editor of the Shakespeare Dictionary Series and to Colleen Coalter and the staff at Continuum for allowing me freedom to mould the project, and for their patience in waiting for its completion. I received excellent editorial advice in response to my draft entries and queries, a crucial ele- ment of the success of the Series. Colleen and Kim Pillay at Pindar Press prepared the text for publication for which I am extremely grateful. I owe thanks to a large number of colleagues and students who have helped me by offering comments. Juliet Dusinberre, Stanley Wells, Katherine Duncan-J ones and Peter Holland all read entries at remarkably short notice, encouraging me with the more unusual ideas I proposed and providing corrections. I am also grateful to the Shakespeare students at Lancaster University who responded to draft versions of the entries posted on our course website. Vassiliki Markidou at the University of Athens kindly read and commented on a larger section of the manuscript and I offer her my warm thanks. My colleagues in the English Department at Lancaster have been supportive in intellectual and practical ways especially during the fi nal period of writing over the exam term in Summer 2009. In the academic context, my deep- est debt goes to Liz Oakley- Brown who has read through numerous individual draft entries and shared ideas more informally. I thank her very warmly for her continued interest in the book’s progress; it has made all the difference. The book has been a massive undertaking that would not have been possible without the support of my immediate family. I thank my son Robert who compiled individual entries into letter fi les and my daughter Eleanor who took the pink highlights away from entries like ‘girl’. I thank my mum who helped us in very practical ways on her visits to Lancaster in the run- up to submission of the manuscript. My husband David undertook the daunting task of supplying missing line references to the plays. Although this was exhausting, immersion in Shakespeare proved once again to be what William Gouge calls ‘an indissoluble glue’ binding us together. Without the glue, there would be no book. I thank David for engaging in the sticky process of completing the book with love. Alison Findlay Lancaster, 2009 vii Abbreviations SD stage direction Ind. Induction Texts by Shakespeare A&C Antony and Cleopatra AWW All’s Well That Ends Well AYLI As You Like It Cor. Coriolanus Cym. Cymbeline EIII Edward III Err. The Comedy of Errors Ham. Hamlet 1HIV The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 2HIV The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth HV King Henry the Fifth 1HVI The First Part of King Henry the Sixth 2HVI The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth 3HVI The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth HVIII King Henry the Eighth JC Julius Caesar KJ King John KL King Lear LC A Lover’s Complaint LLL Love’s Labour’s Lost Luc. The Rape of Lucrece MAdo Much Ado About Nothing Mac. Macbeth MM Measure for Measure MND A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mer. The Merchant of Venice MWW The Merry Wives of Windsor Oth. Othello Per. Pericles PP The Passionate Pilgrim PT The Phoenix and Turtle RII Kind Richard the Second viii Abbreviations RIII King Richard the Third R&J Romeo and Juliet Shrew The Taming of the Shrew Son. Sonnets STM Sir Thomas More T&C Troilus and Cressida Temp. The Tempest TGV The Two Gentlemen of Verona Tim. Timon of Athens Tit. Titus Andronicus TN Twelfth Night TNK The Two Noble Kinsmen V&A Venus and Adonis WT The Winter’s Tale Journal titles ANQ American Notes and Queries CE College English CLS Comparative Literature Studies ELH English Literary History ELN English Language Notes ELR English Literary Renaissance MLN Modern Language Notes MLQ Modern Language Quarterly MP Modern Philology NQ Notes and Queries PMLA Publications of Modern Language Association RES Review of English Studies RMRLL Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature RQ Renaissance Quarterly SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 SP Studies in Philology SQ Shakespeare Quarterly ShSt Shakespeare Studies ShS Shakespeare Survey Reference titles OED Oxford English Dictionary ODN Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names ix
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