The lady vanishes : fantasies of female heroism in Shakespeare's last plays /
Vroom, Theresia de,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-416) and index.
Part I: The Lady Vanishes: The construction of the tragicomic heroine -- Pericles and the mirror of heroism -- "Kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave": Imogen's circuitous heroism -- Told-twice tales and The Winter's Tale -- The Tempest: a man looks at motherhood. Part II: The de-construction of the tragicomic heroine: Shakespeare and Fletcher: Henry VIII or All is True -- Two noble kinsmen and their kinswomen -- Coda.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Heroines in literature.