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The Doubtful Heir (2022)
Book Chapter
Yearling, R. (2022). The Doubtful Heir. In The Complete Works of James Shirley

Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir (2022)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2022). Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir. https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.15645

Critics have frequently argued about whether early modern plays like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night are ultimately subversive or conservative in their attitudes towards gender and sexuality. Stephen Greenblatt, for example, claims that Twelfth Night’s c... Read More about Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir.