Women and revenge in Shakespeare [electronic resource] : gender, genre, and ethics / Marguerite A. Tassi.
Material type: TextPublication details: Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press, 2011Description: 344 p. : illISBN: 9781575911632 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women | Revenge in literature | Women in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 822.3/3 LOC classification: PR2991 | .T37 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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