Shakespeare References in Meeting The Madwoman

Linda Schierse Leonard’s Meeting The Madwoman contains a couple of Shakespeare references. She mentions two Shakespearean characters in her list of literary “madwomen”: “In world literature, she is also represented by Clytemnestra, Electra, Antigone, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, Madame Bovary, the Madwoman of Chaillot, and the mad Mrs. Rochester, locked away in the attic in Jane Eyre” (P. 12). Then, approximately halfway through the book, there is another reference to Macbeth: “She portrayed the ambitious Lady Macbeth, obsessed by guilt after she has her husband kill the king” (p. 145).

Meeting The Madwoman was published in 1993. The Bantam trade paperback edition was published in April 1994.