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Shakespeare Tragedy and Menopause
Author | : Victoria L. McMahon |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783031272042 |
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Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
Author | : Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1996-02-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0253210275 |
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While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.
Shakespeare s Feminine Endings
Author | : Philippa Berry |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781134914937 |
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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. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.
Fantasies of Female Evil
Author | : Cristina León Alfar |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0874137810 |
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Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.
Menopausal Shakespeare and the Anxious Womb
Author | : Victoria McMahon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1338674416 |
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Unsex Me Here
Author | : Judy Celine A. Ick |
Publsiher | : Office of Vice Chancellor for Resear Rsity of Philippines |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015042939127 |
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Comic Women Tragic Men
Author | : Linda Bamber |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1982-06-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780804765695 |
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This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare s Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
Author | : Verena Schörkhuber |
Publsiher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783638767491 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Edinburgh, course: Tragedy, History and Sovereignty in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poetry and Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Building on the assumption that differences between the sexes in tragedy are defined through competing representations of heroism, this paper shall take a closer look at the representation of gender in two premodern tragedies, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The aim of this paper shall be to provide a short introduction to (Shakespeare) feminist criticism, which will be supplemented with an overview of various notable instances of the representation of gender in these two works.