Title: The female tragic hero in English Renaissance drama
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.
Subjects: English drama, English drama (Tragedy), History and criticism, Heroes in literature, Renaissance, Women and literature, Heroines in literature, History, Women in literature, English drama, history and criticism, English drama (collections), early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600
Places: England
Time periods: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, 17th century, 16th century