Shakespeare Tragedy And Menopause

Author : Victoria L. McMahon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031272042

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Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause by Victoria L. McMahon Pdf

Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.

Author : Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253210275

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Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner,Madelon Sprengnether Pdf

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.

Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134914937

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Shakespeare's Feminine Endings by Philippa Berry Pdf

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.

Author : Cristina León Alfar
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874137810

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Fantasies of Female Evil by Cristina León Alfar Pdf

Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.

Author : Victoria McMahon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1338674416

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Menopausal Shakespeare and the Anxious Womb by Victoria McMahon Pdf

Author : Judy Celine A. Ick
Publisher : Office of Vice Chancellor for Resear Rsity of Philippines
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015042939127

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Unsex Me Here by Judy Celine A. Ick Pdf

Author : Linda Bamber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1982-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780804765695

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Comic Women, Tragic Men by Linda Bamber Pdf

This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

Author : Verena Schörkhuber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638767491

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The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and Cleopatra' by Verena Schörkhuber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Edinburgh, course: Tragedy, History and Sovereignty in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poetry and Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Building on the assumption that differences between the sexes in tragedy are defined through competing representations of heroism, this paper shall take a closer look at the representation of gender in two premodern tragedies, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The aim of this paper shall be to provide a short introduction to (Shakespeare) feminist criticism, which will be supplemented with an overview of various notable instances of the representation of gender in these two works.

Author : Janet Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136607370

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Suffocating Mothers by Janet Adelman Pdf

An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036352180

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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence by Kenneth Muir Pdf

The emphasis of this book is that each of Shakespeare's tragedies demanded its own individual form and that although certain themes run through most of the tragedies, nearly all critics refrain from the attempt to apply external rules to them.

Author : Rodolfo Paoletti,P.G. Crosignani,P. Kenemans,N.K. Wenger,Ann S. Jackson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780585379739

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Women’s Health and Menopause by Rodolfo Paoletti,P.G. Crosignani,P. Kenemans,N.K. Wenger,Ann S. Jackson Pdf

The population structure in the world is rapidly changing, to the extent that in 75 years we will face a tripling of the elderly population. Although women are favored in terms of life expectancy, they also live with a longer period of disability (approximately twice that of aging men), as well as with the enemies of all the elderly, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and dementia. Menopause is the endocrine event that overlaps with aging, potentially worsening both the quality of life and the risks of disease in women.While the effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on menopausal symptoms is generally viewed as rapid and consistent, and is thereby accepted by the scientific community, its relationship to the other aforementioned chronic conditions associated with menopause is considered variable and controversial.In analyzing these complex issues, this volume yields new and significant insights into both the study of menopause-related disorders and their treatment, by illustrating the most recent information on mechanisms of actions of new estrogen receptors and on the use of sophisticated techniques of statistical analysis for population-based studies.

Author : H.J. Buchsbaum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461255253

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The Menopause by H.J. Buchsbaum Pdf

Nearly one-half of an American woman's life is spent after the cessation of reproductive function. A woman of 40 years has an additional life expectancy of nearly 40 years; a woman of 75, over 11 years. This pattern of longevity is likely to continue, so that by the year 2000, it has been estimated, 30 percent of the female population will be postmenopausal. While it is difficult to separate the results of aging from those of estrogen deprivation, it is important that we try to do so, since the results of the latter are amenable to treatment. The medical infirmities resulting from estrogen deprivation take a high toll among postmenopausal women. Nearly 200,000 hip fractures occur annually in this group, resulting in 15,000 deaths and a high morbidity rate. Sleep disorders, compromised sexuality, psychomotor alterations of the climacterium, and urinary tract disorders all contribute to a lowered quality of life. Appropriate treatment of these disturbing postmenopausal conditions requires an understanding of the underlying bio chemical, endocrinologic, psychologic, and pathophysiologic al terations of estrogen deprivation. Toward this end, the reader will find herein chapters dealing with estrogen metabolism in the postmenopausal female, end-organ response to estrogen deprivation, and bone metabolism and osteoporosis. Next, the reader will find chapters dealing with specific or gans, organ systems, or conditions related to the quality of life; for example, sexuality, urinary tract problems, sleep disorders, the breast, sports and exercise, the climacteric, and the psycho biology of the menopause.

Author : Angela Pitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 0715378481

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Shakespeare's Women by Angela Pitt Pdf

Historical setting for Shakespeare's women - Shakespeare's tragic women - Women in comedies and last plays - Women in histories - Shakespeare's women on stage.

Author : Ana Maribel Moreno G.
Publisher : Pageturner, Press and Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798886226911

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Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra by Ana Maribel Moreno G. Pdf

Ana Maribel Moreno has once again proven Shakespeare's universality in presenting three of his most tragic females as very modern in their love and desires. -Dr. Colomba Luque de Pérez If a poet can teach about life, surely that poet is Shakespeare. That is why the work of those who illuminate their profound worlds appreciated. Especially if those worlds are the virginal heart of Desdemona, the tremendous one of Cleopatra or the wicked heart of Lady Macbeth. -Gregorio Urriola Candanedo An amazing piece of literature, well-thought, well-written, and well-delivered. I am glad I was able to enjoy the deep-rooted analysis and importance of these famous Shakespearean characters. Keep up the good work. Heartfelt congratulations. -Harminder Kaur Tragedy is analyzed in this study in women's lives who faced with few resources such as love, faith, caution, courage, ingeniousness and loquaciousness to reach for their dreams. -Jackeline West Roux This book caught my eye because I had never before read anything focused, exclusively, on Shakespeare's female characters. I was very pleasantly surprised, to say the least. Let's face it-Shakespeare is not for everybody. Prof. Moreno's style is inimitable. Here, she's managed to take a very complex subject and explain it in terms that everybody is able to understand and appreciate. -Patricia Smith

Author : Kerrie Roberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000821352

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Hamlet’s Hereditary Queen by Kerrie Roberts Pdf

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained by misogynistic perspectives on female power. Bringing together the author’s wealth of insight from a theatre practitioner’s perspective and combining it with a scholarly perspective, the book argues that Gertrude need not be limited to sex and motherhood. She could instead be played as Denmark’s blood royal Queen, her role in the play then being about female political power. Gertrude’s royal status could play out on stage through a variety of possible performance choices for stage design, stage business, acting processes, and the actor’s presence – both speaking and silent. Hamlet's Hereditary Queen takes into consideration Shakespeare’s source myths, historical studies of the position of queens and the issues concerning them in early modern England, Hamlet’s performance history, and the text itself. It questions traditional readings of Hamlet, and offers detailed analyses of relevant scenes to demonstrate how Gertrude’s Hamlet might play out on stage in the twenty-first century. This is an engaging and insightful interpretation for students and scholars of theatre and performance studies and Shakespeare studies, as well as theatre practitioners.