The female hero in English Renaissance tragedy
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Author
Publication
2002 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3569797M
- ISBN-100333987918
- OCLC Control Number49902887
- OCLC Control Numberfemaleheroenglis00hopk
- Library of Congress Control Number2002072344
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- Goodreads1223929
Classifications
- DDC822/.051209352042
- LCCPR658.W6 H66 2002
Description
"This book focuses on female tragic heroes in English Renaissance drama from c.1610-c.1645, characters who differ from previous tragic heroines because they were not passive victims but active agents. Their sudden appearance can be linked to a specific historical moment and to highly contested debates within early modern England, including changing ideas about the relationship between bodies and souls, men's and women's bodies, marriage and mothering, and law and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are not what we would now call heroines but were closer to villainesses, the staging of a constant stream of bad or fallible women did not in fact work to reinforce misogyny, but to prise it open, revealing the grounds on which it was constructed. Consequently these plays did not merely reflected their culture but changed it."--BOOK JACKET.
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