Links Database: Keyword female

• "Wishing a More Strict Restraint": Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella

  http://www.marshall.edu/engsr/SR1996.html#Wishing

  Friedman, Michael D. "'Wishing a More Strict Restraint': Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella" West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers (SRASP) 19 (1996). Friedman's essay deals with silence as submission and speech as resistance in Shakespeare's female characters with a focus on feminist performances of Isabella in Measure for Measure:

  keywords: feminism, isabella, MM, measure for measure, female, silence

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Measure for Measure

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• A Celebration of Women Writers: 1501 - 1600

  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/1501-1600.html

  A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, maintains a collection of e-texts of Renaissance women writers:

  keywords: writers, female, women

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers

  valid as of 2005-09-14

• Renaissance Forum

  http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/clare.htm

  Clare, Janet. Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaisscance and Reformation. (University College Dublin). Exerpt:"The writings of women, whether religious, popular, humanist or courtly, had in the mid sixteenth to early seventeenth century at least one common aspect: women writers represented in their work an alternative culture which ran alongside the dominant culture and in writing as some did with a view to publication, they were transgressing boundaries." View the full-text version of this document at:

  keywords: culture, female, forum, reformation, seventeenth, sixteenth, women

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Authors and Texts > Women writers

  valid as of 2005-09-14