The female tragic hero in English Renaissance drama
By: edited by Naomi Conn Liebler.
Contributors: Liebler, Naomi Conn, 1944-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Heroines in literature.; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Renaissance -- England.; Heroes in literature.; Women in literature.
Description: "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 Vittoria, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Wonder Woman, or the Female Tragic Hero; title: Naomi Conn Liebler; title: Euripides at Grays Inn: Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh'Joastta; title: Robert S. Miola; title: Visible Hecubas; title: Judith Weil; title: 'Not Know Me Yet?":; title: Looking at Cleopatra in Three Renaissance Tragedies; title: Mimi Still Dixon; title: The Heroic Tragdy of Cleopatra, the "Prostiute Queen"; title: Kay Stanton; title: Female Heroism in Heywood's Tragic Farce of Adultery; title: A Woman Killed with Kindness; title: Theresia de Vroom; title: "As If a Man Should Spit against the Wind"; title: Main Orkin; title: Queen of Apricots: The Duchess of Malfi, Hlero of Desire; title: Linda Woodbridge; title: The "Morris Witch in The Witch of Edmonton; title: Laura Denker and Lauri Maguire; title: Sex and the Female Tragic Hero; title: Jeanne Addison Roberts; title: Contributors; title: Works Cited; title: Index.