Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy
Author: Dympna Callaghan
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
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The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama
Author: N. Liebler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 113704957X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Author: Katharine Goodland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780754651017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama
Author: Karen Newman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991-08-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0226577090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical lens of poststructuralism, Newman reads anatomies, conduct and domesticity handbooks, sermons, homilies, ballads, and court cases to delineate the ideologies of femininity they represented and produced. Arguing that drama, as spectacle, provides a peculiarly useful locus for analyzing the management of femininity, Newman considers the culture of early modern London to reveal how female subjectivity was fashioned and staged in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and others.
The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy
Author: L. Hopkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-09-23
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0230503055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama
Author: Andrew J. Majeske
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustice, Women, and Power in English Reniassance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and overarching political) systems in early modern England. Other essays examine issues involving the role of narrative, evidence, and gendered expectations about justice in the plays of this time period. An implicit concern of these essays is whether women were empowered or dis-empowered in this interaction with the legal/political system.
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender
Author: Shirley Nelson Garner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1996-02-22
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780253210272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile 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.
Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780719028403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen and Tudor Tragedy
Author: Allyna E. Ward
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1611476011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women's place in society. Women and Tudor Tragedy investigates the link between gender and genre, identifying the relation between cultural history and mid-Tudor drama. This book establishes a way for reading women in early modern history, drama, and poetry by fusing discussions of gender in literature with historical analysis of tyranny and martyrdom in mid-Tudor culture. It considers the disparities between the representation of women in historical, political, and religious treatises by examining the complex portrayal of women, female speeches, and the rhetoric of good counsel. The author provides a discussion of the role of women in early English tragedies and in a variety of texts by women. Throughout the book, Allyna E. Ward asks in what ways these different ways of writing the Tudor women can help scholars better understand the place of women in English culture at the end of the sixteenth century. Furthermore, Ward traces the feminization of the rhetoric of counsel that takes place with the last Tudor monarchs as a way of accommodating female rule.
In Another Country
Author: Dorothea Kehler
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780810824188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies.
