The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama

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 contem...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Liebler, Naomi Conn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2002, 2002
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 01800nmm a2200349 u 4500
001 EB001192235
003 EBX01000000000000000864371
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 160511 ||| eng
020 |a 9781137049575 
100 1 |a Liebler, Naomi Conn  |e [editor] 
245 0 0 |a The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c edited by Naomi Conn Liebler 
260 |a New York  |b Palgrave Macmillan US  |c 2002, 2002 
300 |a X, 242 p  |b online resource 
653 |a Classical literature 
653 |a Sex (Psychology) 
653 |a Literature 
653 |a Literature, Modern 
653 |a European Literature 
653 |a Sociology 
653 |a Early Modern/Renaissance Literature 
653 |a Gender Studies 
653 |a Gender expression 
653 |a Classical and Antique Literature 
653 |a European literature 
653 |a Gender identity 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
856 4 0 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04957-5?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 809.4 
520 |a 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