Shakespeare's Feminine Endings

Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-06894-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Feminist Readings of Shakespeare

Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berry, Philippa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Disfigured Endings; Chapter 2 Double Dying and Other Tragic Inversions, Romeo, Juliet; Chapter 3 Echoic Language and Tragic Identity, Hamlet; Chapter 4 Disclosing the Feminine Eye of Death, Othello; Chapter 5 Fortune’s Fools, Macbeth; Chapter 6 Cordelia’s Bond and Britannia’s Missing Middle, King Lear;

Über Autor(innen)

Berry, Philippa