The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by St Martin's Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0312220596 (ISBN 10) and 9780312220594 (ISBN 13).

This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies - Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others - are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.