The Female Tragic Hero In English Renaissance Drama

Author : N. Liebler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137049575

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The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama by N. Liebler Pdf

This 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.

Author : L. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230503052

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The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy by L. Hopkins Pdf

This 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.

Author : L. Hopkins
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333987918

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The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy by L. Hopkins Pdf

This 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.

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000004612193

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Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy by Dympna Callaghan Pdf

Author : S. P. Cerasano
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838640746

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England by S. P. Cerasano Pdf

Contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres as well as substantial reviews of books and essays dealing with medieval and early modern English drama before 1642. This volume addresses the conditions of theatrical ownership and dramatic competitionto those exploring stage movement and theatrical space.

Author : Emma Josephine Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521519373

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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy by Emma Josephine Smith,Garrett A. Sullivan (Jr.) Pdf

Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

Author : Paula de Pando
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004379343

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John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes by Paula de Pando Pdf

Paula de Pando analyses the engagement of historical she-tragedy with Restoration politics and culture, positioning Banks’s plays at the crossroads between early modern genres and the emerging discourses of the long eighteenth century.

Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155015

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age by Naomi Conn Liebler Pdf

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the period and across geographic, political, and social references. They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Allyna E. Ward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781611476019

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Women and Tudor Tragedy by Allyna E. Ward Pdf

The 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.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199809608

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English Drama: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : A. Hiscock,L. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230593206

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Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists by A. Hiscock,L. Hopkins Pdf

This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.

Author : Sarah Dewar-Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230392595

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Tragedy by Sarah Dewar-Watson Pdf

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most revered forms of literature in the western world. Over the centuries, tragedy has shown a tremendous capacity to reinvent itself, often emerging at crucial moments in the evolution of cultural, political and intellectual history. Not only is tragedy marked by its diversity, the critical literature surrounding the genre is equally diverse. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key criticism and debates on tragedy, from Aristotle through to the present day. Sarah Dewar-Watson presents the work of canonical theorists and lesser-known but, nonetheless, influential critics, bringing together a strong sense of the critical tradition and an awareness of current scholarly trends. Stimulating and engaging, this essential resource helps students to navigate their way around the subject of tragedy and its rich critical terrain.

Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192511607

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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages by Tanya Pollard Pdf

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.

Author : Christina Luckyj
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108845090

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The Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England by Christina Luckyj Pdf

This study illuminates the female voice as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny in early Stuart literature and discourse.

Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107036321

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Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage by Mary Floyd-Wilson Pdf

Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.