Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics /

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Main Author: Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations
  • Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays
  • Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing
  • Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus
  • "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance
  • Twelfth night, or what Maria wills
  • Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor
  • The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice
  • Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.