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UNINA9910815710403321 |
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Autore |
Berry Philippa <1955-> |
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Titolo |
Shakespeare's feminine endings : figuring women in the tragedies / / Philippa Berry |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
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1-134-91493-8 |
1-134-91494-6 |
1-280-32883-5 |
0-203-31355-0 |
0-203-07284-7 |
9786610328833 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 pages) |
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Collana |
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Feminist readings of Shakespeare |
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Soggetti |
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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) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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