Review: Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare\u27s Drama by Peter Erickson; Love\u27s Argument: Gender Relations in Shakespeare by Marianne Novy

Enlisting a broad range of scholarship-traditional and contemporary, psychological, sociological, and feminist-these studies address problems of gender in Shakespeare\u27s plays. Besides adding to our understanding of the plays, both books deal with the crucial question of Shakespeare\u27s relation to his age-the extent to which he succeeded in moving beyond them