Books like Sex and society in Shakespeare's age by A. L. Rowse

The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka. Glamorised, mythologised and demonised, the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. This is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit, women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade in which they came of age, the 1920s. Contains primary source material

Jillian Keenan traces how Shakespeare’s language guided her teenage self‑discovery and helped her embrace a unique sexual identity, turning classic plays into a personal love story.

Marilyn French examines how Shakespeare’s plays shift from valuing masculine traits like bravery to appreciating feminine qualities such as compassion and intuition, offering a feminist lens on gender, love, and power in Western drama.