Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the TragediesPsychology Press, 1999 - 197 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Double dying and other tragic inversions Romeo | 21 |
Echoic language and tragic identity Hamlet | 44 |
tragedy | 72 |
revolutions of time fate and sovereignty | 102 |
Cordelias bond and Britannias missing middle King | 135 |
Notes | 167 |
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Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies Philippa Berry Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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