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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /

"Shakespeare is not our contemporary, the contributors to Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender emphatically conclude--yet coping with his cultural influence is never a simple matter. Ranging from Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sprengnether, Madelon, Garner, Shirley Nelson, 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 / Coppelia 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.