Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender /
"Shakespeare is not our contemporary, the contributors to Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender emphatically conclude--yet coping with his cultural influence is never a simple matter. Ranging from Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers...
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Bloomington :
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1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Gendered subject of Shakespearean tragedy / Madelon Sprengnether
- Part one: Tragic subjects.
- History into tragedy: the case of Richard III / Phyllis Rackin
- A Woman of letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus / Sara Eaton
- 'Documents in madness': reading madness and gender in Shakespeare's tragedies and early modern culture / Carol Thomas Neely
- 'Born of woman': fantasies of maternal power in Macbeth / Janet Adelman
- 'Magic of bounty': Timon of Athens, Jacobean patronage, and maternal power / Coppelia Kahn Part two: Implicating Othello.
- Desdemona's disposition / Lena Cowen Orlin
- 'The Moor of Venice, ' or the Italian on the Renaissance English stage / Margo Hendricks
- The Heroics of marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi / Mary Beth Rose Part three: Shakespear our contemporary?
- The Fatal Cleopatra / Carol Cook
- What's love got to do with it? Reading the liberal humanist romance in Antony and Cleopatra / Linda Charnes
- Shakespeare in my time and place / Shirley Nelson Garner
- Leaving Shakespeare / Gayle Greene.