The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama
1st ed. 2002
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1349621501
ISBN-13
9781349621507
Edition
1st ed. 2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 2002
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
330 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 1.60 cms
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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, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
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, Webster''s Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.
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