Revised reading assignment 1. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (complete) 2. Christine de Pizan,...
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Revised reading assignment 1. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (complete) 2. Christine de Pizan, City of Ladies Adobe link 3. Issue to think about What scene or sequence of scenes from the play best capture the relationship of the sexes in Renaissance Europe? How would you adapt these particular scenes to contemporary America?
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Revised reading assignment
1. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (complete)
2. Christine de Pizan, City of Ladies
Adobe link
3. Issue to think about
What scene or sequence of scenes from the play best capture the relationship of the sexes in Renaissance Europe?
How would you adapt these particular scenes to contemporary America?
Lecture 26
Renaissance Women
I. Introduction--Origins of Women’s History
II. Ideas about Women
III. The Female Life Cycle
A. Childhood and Adolescence
B. Sexuality
C. Marriage
D. Pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood
E. Widowhood and old age
Eve as Pandora
Christine de Pizan
Catalina de Erauso
Birth of Mary--Typical 16th-century birth scene