Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies
Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies by Philippa Berry
English | Oct. 20, 1999 | ISBN: 0415068940, 0415068959 | 212 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | Oct. 20, 1999 | ISBN: 0415068940, 0415068959 | 212 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body.