03449nam 2200781Ia 450 991081571040332120200520144314.01-134-91493-81-134-91494-61-280-32883-50-203-31355-00-203-07284-7978661032883310.4324/9780203072844(CKB)1000000000253681(EBL)169092(OCoLC)50298242(SSID)ssj0000071250(PQKBManifestationID)11109927(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071250(PQKBWorkID)10090609(PQKB)10234811(MiAaPQ)EBC169092(Au-PeEL)EBL169092(CaPaEBR)ebr10054646(CaONFJC)MIL32883(EXLCZ)99100000000025368119990210d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare's feminine endings figuring women in the tragedies /Philippa Berry1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19991 online resource (212 pages)Feminist readings of ShakespeareDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-06895-9 0-415-06894-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index.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).XPhilippa 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 mattFeminist readings of Shakespeare.Feminism and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryFeminism and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory17th centurySex role in literatureDeath in literatureClosure (Rhetoric)Feminism and literatureHistoryFeminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistorySex role in literature.Death in literature.Closure (Rhetoric)822.3/3Berry Philippa1955-168978MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815710403321Shakespeare's feminine endings1270251UNINA