Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

by Garner, Shirley Nelson; Sprengnether, Madelon

• ISBN13: 9780253329646
• ISBN10: 0253329647
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Gendered Subject of Shakespearean Tragedy	p. 1
History into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III	p. 31
A Woman of Letters: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus	p. 54
"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture	p. 75
"Born of Woman": Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth	p. 105
"Magic of bounty": Timon of Athens, Jacobean Patronage, and Maternal Power	p. 135
Desdemona's Disposition	p. 171
"The Moor of Venice," or the Italian on the Renaissance English Stage	p. 193
The Heroics of Marriage in Othello and The Duchess of Malfi	p. 210
The Fatal Cleopatra	p. 241
What's Love Got to Do with It? Reading the Liberal Humanist Romance in Antony and Cleopatra	p. 268
Shakespeare in My Time and Place	p. 287
Leaving Shakespeare	p. 307
Notes on Contributors	p. 317
Index	p. 321
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