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Women and revenge in Shakespeare : gender, genre, and ethics

Title
Women and revenge in Shakespeare : gender, genre, and ethics / Marguerite A. Tassi.
Author
Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-
Publication
Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, c2011.

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Book/textUse in library JFE 12-1728Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
344 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Characters > Women
  • Revenge in literature
  • Women in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations -- Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays -- Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing -- Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance -- Twelfth night, or what Maria wills -- Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor -- The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice -- Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.
Call Number
JFE 12-1728
ISBN
  • 9781575911311 (alk. paper)
  • 1575911310 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010038144
OCLC
YBP 2010038144
Author
Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-
Title
Women and revenge in Shakespeare : gender, genre, and ethics / Marguerite A. Tassi.
Imprint
Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-1728
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