"This encyclopaedic and critically sophisticated survey of women and womanhood in Shakespeare offers a uniquely invaluable resource for students and scholars alike." - Professor Stanley Wells, CBE, Chairman, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

'One of the strengths of Findlay's lexicon is that it includes gendered role types and their attributes... The result is a richly studded picture both of individual women and of societal and linguistic mores.'

The Times Literary Supplement

The impressive range and intricate detail make Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary immensely valuable to both seasoned Shakespeareans and students alike; the dictionary format enables quick reference while still retaining critical integrity.

Routledge ABES

Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary inventively surveys not only the proper names of female characters but also many sorts of female and feminized ideas and associations in the corpus. The entry on 'woman' demonstrates how much is to be learned from such an approach to a reference book.

Roland Greene, Stanford University, Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama