Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804711267
ISBN13:9780804711265
Release Date:June 1982
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:212 Pages
Weight:0.54 lbs.
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