Women and Mobility on Shakespeare's Stage : Routledge : 9780367886936 : 0367886936 : 10 Dec 2019 : Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing?lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order?Shakespeare was interested in such women's plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone. Characters like Shakespeare's Cordelia and Perdita, Rosalind and Celia constitute a collection of figures related to the mythical Persephone who famously returns to her mother and the earth each spring, only to withdraw from the world each winter when she is recalled to the underworld. That women's place is far from home has received little attention from literary scholars, however, and the story of their fraught relation to domestic space or success outside its bounds is one that hasn't been told. Women and Mobility investigates the ways Shakespear