Shakespeare's feminine endings : disfiguring death in the tragedies
In this text, the author Philippa Berry rewrites critical perceptions of death in Shakespeare's tragedies from a feminist perspective, drawing on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory.
xiv, 197 s. : illustrations.
9780415068949, 9780415068956, 0415068940, 0415068959
185765625
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;