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Author : Tony Howard
Release : 2007-02-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 666/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women as Hamlet by : Tony Howard
Download or read book Women as Hamlet written by Tony Howard. This book was released on 2007-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen.
Author : Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hamlet's Mother and Other Women by : Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Download or read book Hamlet's Mother and Other Women written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three decades since her revolutionary and seminal article "The Character of Hamlet's Mother," Carolyn Heilbrun has been a prophet in the field of women and literature, gender and culture. This collection of graceful and uncompromising essays charts her development as a feminist writer and critic, which has culminated in such groundbreaking works as REINVENTING WOMANHOOD and WRITING A WOMAN'S LIFE. Shakespeare's Gertrude was first among many literary figures illuminated by Heilbrun's feminist sensibility. Others include Homer's Penelope -- an archetypal single parent, weaving herself a new life for which she was given no script; Jo in LITTLE WOMEN, a model of autonomy for generations of female readers; Elizabeth Bennet, remarkable for the promise of friendship in her marriage with Darcy; and Harrriet Vane, outrageously unique on many counts. The consistency and clarity of Heilbrun's vision in matched only by its heterogeneity, as she discusses Margaret Mead and Freud's daughters, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, resistance to feminist studies in academia, mothers and daughters, fiction and myth, tomboys and surrogate sons, and the detective story, of which Heibrun herself (as Amanda Cross) is one of the ablest practitioners. HAMLET'S MOTHER AND OTHER WOMEN will spark recognition, again and again, in readers on their own quest for female redefinition. "[A] witty, learned collection of essays . . . filled with delicate, sometimes startling gems of perception . . . . Provocative." -- New York Newsday
Author : Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : Hamlet (Legendary character)
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Book Rating : 558/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elsewhere in Elsinore by : Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Download or read book Elsewhere in Elsinore written by Caleen Sinnette Jennings. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Courtni Crump Wright
Release : 1993
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Women of Shakespeare's Plays by : Courtni Crump Wright
Download or read book The Women of Shakespeare's Plays written by Courtni Crump Wright. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes, through easy-to-follow play synopses, the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists as they impact not only the plot of Shakespeare's plays but the male protagonist. Selected, condensed one-act versions of the plays are provided in order to enrich the discussion of the play, to stimulate in reading the play in its entirety, and to provide a springboard for group discussion of the play and the impact of the women. Contents: William Shakespeare: His Art, Life and Times; The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: An Overview; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello the Moor of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night or What You Will; Romeo and Juliet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Bibliography.
Author : Marguerite A. Tassi
Release : 2011
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Revenge in Shakespeare by : Marguerite A. Tassi
Download or read book Women and Revenge in Shakespeare written by Marguerite A. Tassi. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these. A surprising number of Shakespeare's female characters respond to moral outrages by expressing a strong desire for vengeance. This book's analysis of these characters and their circumstances offers incisive critical perceptions of feminine anger, ethics, and agency and challenges our assumptions about the role of gender in revenge. In this provocative book, Marguerite A. Tassi counters longstanding critical opinions on revenge: that it is the sole province of men in Western literature and culture, that it is a barbaric, morally depraved, irrational instinct, and that it is antithetical to justice. Countless examples have been mined from Shakespeare's dramas to reveal women's profound concerns with revenge and justice, honor and shame, crime and punishment. In placing the critical focus on avenging women, this book significantly redresses a gender imbalance in scholarly treatments of revenge, particularly in early modern literature.
