The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312220594)

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: N. Liebler
ISBN-10: 0312220596
ISBN-13: 9780312220594
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2002
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.82w x 0.90d