Gender and representations of the female subject in early modern England - Akiko Kusunoki

This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.

Akiko Kusunoki is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan. She held the role of President of the Shakespeare Society of Japan, and is on the board of trustees of the International Shakespeare Association. She has published, both in Japanese and English, works on Shakespeare and women writers in early modern England.