LEADER 03539oam 2200769I 450 001 9910450715803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-91494-6 010 $a1-280-32883-5 010 $a0-203-31355-0 010 $a0-203-07284-7 010 $a9786610328833 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203072844 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253681 035 $a(EBL)169092 035 $a(OCoLC)50298242 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071250 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071250 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10090609 035 $a(PQKB)10234811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC169092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL169092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054646 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL32883 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253681 100 $a20180331d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShakespeare's feminine endings $edisfiguring death in the tragedies /$fPhilippa Berry 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 225 1 $aFeminist readings of Shakespeare 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-06895-9 311 $a0-415-06894-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-188) and index. 327 $aCover; SHAKESPEARE'S FEMININE ENDINGS: Disfiguring death in the tragedies; Copyright; CONTENTS; PLATES; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 DISFIGURED ENDINGS: SEXUAL MATTERS AND SHAKESPEARE'S ARS MORIENDI; 2 DOUBLE DYING AND OTHER TRAGIC INVERSIONS; 3 ECHOIC LANGUAGE AND TRAGIC IDENTITY; 4 DISCLOSING THE FEMININE EYE OF DEATH: TRAGEDY AND SEEING IN THE DARK; 5 FORTUNE'S FOOLS: REVOLUTIONS OF TIME, FATE AND SOVEREIGNTY; 6 CORDELIA'S BOND AND BRITANNIA'S MISSING MIDDLE; NOTES; INDEX 330 $aPhilippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matt 410 0$aFeminist readings of Shakespeare. 606 $aFeminism and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aFeminism and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aClosure (Rhetoric) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aClosure (Rhetoric) 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aBerry$b Philippa$f1955,$0993949 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450715803321 996 $aShakespeare's feminine endings$92276006 997 $aUNINA