Callaghan 2000

Callaghan, Dympna. Shakespeare Without Women: Representing Gender and Race on the Renaissance Stage. New York: Rutledge, 2000.

Introduction: Cleopatra had a way with her

book about "the specifically political dimension of the dense philosophical problems posed b dramatic representation" (2)

who's not on stage -- women, Africans, indigenous Irish

"I am especially concerned with whether such absence matters and, further, curious about what complex admixture of elements -- including sympathetic representation, misrepresentation, non-representation, and, crucially, the structural effects of mimesis itself -- constitutes the absence of these groups." (2)

Peacham drawing of Titus Andronicus -- "vividly depicts racial and gendered difference and seems to point to the inclusivity of Shakespeare's stage" (3)