Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause write by Victoria L. McMahon. This book was released on 2023-10-27. Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.
Fantasies of Female Evil
Fantasies of Female Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantasies of Female Evil write by Cristina León Alfar. This book was released on 2003. Fantasies of Female Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.
Unsex Me Here
Unsex Me Here - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsex Me Here write by Judy Celine A. Ick. This book was released on 1999. Unsex Me Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Comic Women, Tragic Men
Comic Women, Tragic Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comic Women, Tragic Men write by Linda Bamber. This book was released on 1982-06-01. Comic Women, Tragic Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
Shakespeare's Women
Shakespeare's Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare's Women write by Angela Pitt. This book was released on 1981. Shakespeare's Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical setting for Shakespeare's women - Shakespeare's tragic women - Women in comedies and last plays - Women in histories - Shakespeare's women on stage.
