The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	N. Liebler
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-22059-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-312-22059-6
Barcode:	9780312220594

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