Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause The Anxious Womb
Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Menopausal Gertrude and the Petrified Womb
- Chapter 3: Menopausal Tamora and the Vegetable Womb
- Chapter 4: Menopausal Volumnia and the Animal Womb
- Chapter 5: Menopausal Lady Macbeth and the Envious Womb
- Chapter 6: Menopausal Cleopatra and the Cyborg Womb
- Chapter 7: Conclusion