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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 author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self.
The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.
Linda Bamber is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University.
This is a reproduction edition based on a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Comic women, tragic men: a study of gender and genre in Shakespeare
By Linda Bamber
Published by Stanford University Press, 1982
ISBN 0804711267, 9780804711265 211 pages
ONE Comic Women Tragic Men 1
misogyny , Othello , Shakespeare
TWO Antony and Cleopatra 45
Antony and Cleopatra , Egypt , King Lear
THREE Hamlet 71
Ophelia , Laertes , Claudius
FOUR Macbeth and Coriolanus 91
Coriolanus , Lady Macduff , Volumnia
FIVE The Comic Heroine and the Avoidance 109
Shakespearean comedy , Twelfth Night , Shylock
Toward Tragedy 135
Richard II , Henry VI , Falstaff
The Tempest 169
Winter's Tale , Prospero , Caliban
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