Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

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.

List of contents

Introduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy, Madelon Sprengnether

1. Tragic Subjects

History into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III, Phyllis Rackin

A Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sara Eaton

"Documents in Madness": REading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture, Carol Thomas Neely

"Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, Janet Adelman

"Magic of Bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power, Coppélia Kahn

2. Implicating Othello

Desdemona's Disposition, Lena Cowen Orlin

"The Moor of Venice," or the Indian on the Renaissance English Stage, Margo Hendricks

The Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi, Mary Beth Rose

3. Shakespeare Our Contemporary?

The Fatal Cleopatra, Carol Cook

What's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra, Linda Charnes

Shakespeare in My Time and Place, Shirley Nelson Garner

Leaving Shakespeare, Gayle Greene

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

edited by Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon G. Sprengnether

Summary

Powerful new readings of the Shakespearean tragic hero.

Product details

• Assisted by: Edited by Shirley Nelson Garner and Made (Editor), Shirley Garner (Editor), Shirley N. Garner (Editor), Shirley Nelson Garner (Editor), Madelon Sprengnether (Editor), Madelon G Sprengnether (Editor), Madelon G. Sprengnether (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.1996
• EAN: 9780253210272
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21027-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 556 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)