Washoe County Library System

"From one of the country s foremost Shakespeare experts, a fierce, funny exploration of the women of Shakespeare s plays that reveals his evolving understanding of the feminine. Women of Will traces Shakespeare s development as a human being. Beginning with the early comedies ("The Taming of the Shrew," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "The Comedy of Errors"), Tina Packer shows that Shakespeare began by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little...