The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2002 | 1st ed. 2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-62150-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction: WonderWoman, or the Female Tragic Hero; N. Conn Liebler Euripides at Gray's Inn: Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh's Jocasta; R.S.Miola Visible Hecubas; J.Weil "Not Know Me Yet?": Looking at Cleopatra in Three Renaissance Tragedies; M.Still Dixon The Heroic Tragedy of Cleopatra, the "Prostitute Queen"; K.Stanton Female Heroism in Heywood's Tragic Farce of Adultery: A Woman Killed with Kindness; T.de Vroom As if a man should spit against the wind; M.Orkin Queen of Apricots: The Duchess of Malfi, Hero of Desire; L.Woodbridge The "Morris Witch" in The Witch of Edmonton; L.Denker & L.Maguire Sex and the Female Tragic Hero; J.Addison Roberts

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	X, 242 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Euripides • misogyny • Renaissance • Women
ISBN-10	1-349-62150-1 / 1349621501
ISBN-13	978-1-349-62150-7 / 9781349621507
Zustand	Neuware