A large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to more earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late 20th-century. For example, Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres", which rewrites "King Lear", and Marina Warner's "Indigo", which rewrites "The Tempest", protest biases against women and colonialist attitudes that Shakespeare's plays have come to symbolize. In this collection, feminist critics, and Jane Smiley herself, explore a range of such re-writings, as well as recent Shakespearean performances directed by women. The essays examine how these works use rewritings of Shakespeare to deal with gender, race, sexuality, colonialism, environmentalism, class, and nationalism, as well as with the general question of what is our relation to cultural tradition at the start of the new millennium.

Introduction; M.Novy
Rita Dove's Two Shakespeare Poems; P.Erickson
Recent Australian Shrews: The 'Larrikin Element'; P.Gay 
Katie Mitchell's Henry VI; B.Hodgdon
Subverting the Male Gaze: Christine Edzard's Film of As You Like It; P.Lennox
Ann-Marie MacDonald's Good Night Desdemona and Paula Vogel's Desdemona; M.Novy 
Jazz Cleopatras: Shakespearean Appropriations by Two Hollywood Divas: Josephine Baker and Tamora Dobson; F.Royster
The Polluted Quarry: Nature and Body in A Thousand Acres; B.Mathieson
King Lear and A Thousand Acres: Gender, Genre, and the Revisionary Impulse; I.Alter
Shakespeare in Iceland; J.Smiley
'Out of Shakespeare'?: Cordelia in Cat's Eye; S.Raitt
Tempest Plainsong: Silencing Caliban's Curse; D.Brydon
Sycorax Speaks: Marina Warner's Indigo and The Tempest; C.Cakebread
Claribel at Palace Dot Tunis; L.Bamber
Index

MARIANNE NOVY is Professor of English and former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Love's Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare and the editor of Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare and Cross-Cultural Performances.

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