Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics /
Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-
Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics / [electronic resource] : Marguerite A. Tassi. - Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press, 2011. - 344 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781575911632 (electronic bk.)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Characters--Women.
Revenge in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
PR2991 / .T37 2011
822.3/3
Women and revenge in Shakespeare gender, genre, and ethics / [electronic resource] : Marguerite A. Tassi. - Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press, 2011. - 344 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781575911632 (electronic bk.)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Characters--Women.
Revenge in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
PR2991 / .T37 2011
822.3/3