Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study
in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare's
dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and
near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to
Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes
increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic
characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a
gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as
onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit
denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study
scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the
convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine
versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach
towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the
correlation between gender and Shakespeare's genres and how,
eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies
query normative gender discourse.
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