1st Edition
Shakespeare's Feminine Endings Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies
By Philippa Berry
Copyright 1999
212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Disfigured Endings; Chapter 2 Double Dying and Other Tragic Inversions, Romeo, Juliet; Chapter 3 Echoic Language and Tragic Identity, Hamlet; Chapter 4 Disclosing the Feminine Eye of Death, Othello; Chapter 5 Fortune’s Fools, Macbeth; Chapter 6 Cordelia’s Bond and Britannia’s Missing Middle, King Lear;
Biography
Berry, Philippa
'An important approach to literary studies generally, asking us to think about the ways that secondary meanings and associations might reveal anxieties and equivocations below the surface of what we think we can hear.' - Times Literary Supplement
