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Autore: | Berry Philippa <1955-> |
Titolo: | Shakespeare's feminine endings : figuring women in the tragedies / / Philippa Berry |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
Disciplina: | 822.3/3 |
Soggetto topico: | 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) | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Shakespeare's feminine endings |
ISBN: | 1-134-91493-8 |
1-134-91494-6 | |
1-280-32883-5 | |
0-203-31355-0 | |
0-203-07284-7 | |
9786610328833 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815710403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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