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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815710403321

Autore

Berry Philippa <1955->

Titolo

Shakespeare's feminine endings : figuring women in the tragedies / / Philippa Berry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-91493-8

1-134-91494-6

1-280-32883-5

0-203-31355-0

0-203-07284-7

9786610328833

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Collana

Feminist readings of Shakespeare

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Feminism and literature - England - History - 16th century

Feminism and literature - England - History - 17th century

Women and literature - England - History - 16th century

Women and literature - England - History - 17th century

Sex role in literature

Death in literature

Closure (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disfigured endings: sexual matters and Shakespeare's ars moriendi -- Double dying and other tragic inversions (Romeo and Juliet) -- Echoic language and tragic identity (Hamlet) -- Disclosing the feminine eye of death: tragedy and seeing in the dark (Othello) -- Fortune's fools: revolutions of time, fate and sovereignty (Macbeth) -- Cordelia's bond and Britannia's missing middle (King Lear).X

Sommario/riassunto

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 matt