Women in Shakespeare books???

[lilladybug]

I am looking for a good book that discusses the women in Shakespeare's plays, most particularly As you like it, Macbeth, Part I Henry IV, Comedy of Errors, Titus, and 12th Night. I am attempting to create an art piece based on the women of these plays for a class project and I want to symbolically represent these women with the greatest accuracy possible. I've read the plays, but I am looking for more insight and something to back up my research end of this project. Anyone have any suggestions????

[mono]

What an interesting project!
Firstly, I found this site that features many women's monologues in various Shakespeare plays: http://www.shakespeare-monologues.org/womenindex.shtml
And another featuring some similar links: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/hum/dra/shakespe.htm
This website featured MANY recommended books on the subject you search: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/engelsk/shakespeare/women.htm
Unfortunately, that seems all I can find, for the present time, but I will continue looking.
Good luck, and welcome to the forum. :)

[dmitry]

hi- i am not sure how helpful this will be but i found camille paglia's "sexual personae" to be very enlightening regarding many of shakespeare's (and other's) charecters, particularly female. her discussions of portia, cleopatra.. come to mind, though i'm not sure about the particular characters relevant to you. good luck!

[brshfr]

I am going to be writing a paper soon on women in the play Othello. Try looking for the book, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dusinberre. It has more about women in general during Shakespeare time and how he portrayed them in general. I haven't gotten to far with it yet. Just started.