The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349621501 ISBN 13 : 9781349621507

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Naomi Conn Liebler is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University. She is author of Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349621501
• ISBN 13: 9781349621507
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Liebler N.
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