| Description |
viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Gendered subject of Shakespearean tragedy / Madelon Sprengnether -- Part one: Tragic subjects. -- History into tragedy: the case of Richard III / Phyllis Rackin -- A Woman of letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus / Sara Eaton -- 'Documents in madness': reading madness and gender in Shakespeare's tragedies and early modern culture / Carol Thomas Neely -- 'Born of woman': fantasies of maternal power in Macbeth / Janet Adelman -- 'Magic of bounty': Timon of Athens, Jacobean patronage, and maternal power / Coppélia Kahn Part two: Implicating Othello. -- Desdemona's disposition / Lena Cowen Orlin -- 'The Moor of Venice,' or the Italian on the Renaissance English stage / Margo Hendricks -- The Heroics of marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi / Mary Beth Rose Part three: Shakespear our contemporary? -- The Fatal Cleopatra / Carol Cook -- What's love got to do with it? Reading the liberal humanist romance in Antony and Cleopatra / Linda Charnes -- Shakespeare in my time and place / Shirley Nelson Garner -- Leaving Shakespeare / Gayle Greene. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Tragedy.
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| Added Author |
Garner, Shirley Nelson, 1935-
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Sprengnether, Madelon.
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| ISBN |
0253329647 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253210275 pa alkaline paper |
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