The Female Tragic Hero in English R - E-book

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The Female Tragic Hero In English Renaissance Drama - ENG

N. Liebler

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ISBN:	9781137049575
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Crítica literaria
Subtema:	Europea general
Año de publicación:	2016-04-30

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, Websters Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.

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