Shakespeare's Feminine Endings

Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies

Fiction & Literature, Anthologies, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Philippa Berry ISBN: 9781134914937
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 12, 2012
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Philippa Berry
ISBN: 9781134914937
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 12, 2012
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.

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Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.

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