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Article Excerpt
Shakespeare and Women By Phyllis Rackin Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
In her concise, accessible, and important book, Phyllis Rackin shows us where feminist criticism of Shakespeare needs to go: not to laments about women's oppression but to discoveries of historical empowerment; not to texts and interpretations that reinforce patriarchy and misogyny but to those that resist it; not to timeless women but to women understood in relation to time, place, and circumstance. Rackin's concern is more with where feminist criticism is taking us than with where it has been, and her book moves us forward to a better place. Carefully organized and lucidly argued, it offers a fresh, energizing account of its subject and reminds us we have a choice about how we view history, texts, and ourselves. Since Shakespeare's writing "still has an authority unequalled by any other secular texts," many want to claim that authority for their own beliefs and opinions. However, "for women ... what matters is not what Shakespeare thought and felt about us, but what the words he wrote enable us to think and feel about ourselves"...
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