Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253210275 ISBN 13: 9780253210272

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1996

Synopsis

"... an important volume for scholar and student alike, and a tribute to the enduring contributions of its authors." ―Renaissance Quarterly

"These thought-provoking essays run the gamut of feminist criticism on tragedy." ―Shakespeare Quarterly

"Highly recommended... " ―Choice

These essays mount a powerful critique of the tragic hero as representative of the errors and sufferings of humankind. They come from a variety of perspectives―including feminist new historicism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and autobiographical criticism. While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume also covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.

About this title

About the Author:

SHIRLEY NELSON GARNER is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Minnesota. She is a co-editor, with Claire Kahane and Madelon Sprengnether, of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation; and a contributor to the Personal Narratives Group’s Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. MADELON SPRENGNETHER is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis and co-editor of Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism and The (M)other Tongue.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0253210275
• ISBN 13: 9780253210272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Garner Shirley Nelson, Sprengnether Madelon G.