Title: Shakespeare's feminine endings
First published: 1999
Description: In this elegant and provocative book, Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is 'fundamental' to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.
Subjects: History, Feminism and literature, Women and literature, Characters, Tragedies, Sex role in literature, Death in literature, Closure (Rhetoric), Women, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, tragedies, Feminism, Drama, English, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Mort dans la littérature, Conclusion (Littérature), LITERARY CRITICISM, Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, Frau, Tod, Tragödie, Dood, Vrouwen
Places: England
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century
LC classification: PR2983 .B47 1999