| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Feminist readings of Shakespeare |
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Feminist readings of Shakespeare.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-188) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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). |
| Summary |
In this elegant and provocative book, 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 matter in science and philosophy. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies -- Characters -- Women.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Shakespeare, William.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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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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Sex role in literature.
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Death in literature.
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Closure (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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Closure (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst00864659
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Criticism and interpretation. (OCoLC)fst01198648
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Death in literature. (OCoLC)fst00888697
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Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
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Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
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Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Dood.
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Vrouwen.
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Frau <Motiv>
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Tod <Motiv>
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Tragödie.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1699
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berry, Philippa, 1955- Shakespeare's feminine endings. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415068940 (DLC) 99019812 (OCoLC)40848612 |
| ISBN |
0203313550 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203313558 (electronic bk.) |
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0203072847 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203072844 (electronic bk.) |
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9781134914944 (electronic bk.) |
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1134914946 (electronic bk.) |
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