No Other but a Woman’s Reason: Women on Shakespeare- Towards Commemorating the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Birth

The anthology illuminates often neglected and forgotten and seldom appreciated women critics, directors, and writers in Shakespearean studies and performance. The topics include Shakespeare and the unsexed females, the princess and the playwright, African American women writers and Shakespeare, 19th-century Italian international actress Adelaide Ristori as lady Macbeth, the political and personal dimension of Helena Modjeska’s contribution to Shakespeare studies, women of ill-fame and Shakespeare performance in colonial Bengal, Cuban women and Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Native Canada and Québec in late 20th and early 21st centuries, and Shakespeare by Brazilian women. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)