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Shakespeare's feminine endings : disfiguring death in the tragedies /
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 ch...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Collection: | Feminist readings of Shakespeare.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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).