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Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare´s female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

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List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Other Worldly Desires: The Jailer´s Daughter and Emilia in Fletcher and Shakespeare´s The Two Noble Kinsmen and Davenant´s The Rivals 2. No Woman Is an Island: Female Roles in Dryden and Davenant´s The Tempest, Or The Enchanted Island and Shakespeare´s The Tempest 3. Silence and Sorcery, Sexuality and Stone: Absent Parts to Understanding Hermione and Paulina in Shakespeare´s The Winter´s Tale and Garrick´s Florizel and Perdita 4. Transformation, Transvestism, and Lost Text: Violante´s Rape and Cross-Dressing in Lewis Theobald´s Double Falsehood and Fletcher and Shakespeare´s Cardenio Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Lori Leigh is a Lecturer of Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has published in The Quest for Cardenio (2012), The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio (2013), and the journal Shakespeare. She is an award-winning director and has worked on numerous productions of Shakespeare´s plays.

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