Tassi, Marguerite A.

Women and Revenge in Shakespeare. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (344 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Women and Revenge in Shakespeare -- Introduction -- 1 Women and Revenge: Some Literary, Iconographic, and Intellectual Foundations -- 2 Valorous Tongues, Lamenting Voices: The Expressive Ethics of Female Inciters in Shakespeare's Plays -- 3 Reporting the Women's Causes Aright: Wounded Names and Revenge Narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much Ado About Nothing -- 4 Hecuba's Legacy: Wounded Maternity and Vengeance in the First Tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- 5 "Revenging Home": Cordelia and the Virtue of Vengeance -- 6 Twelfth Night, or What Maria Wills -- 7 Feminine Vindication and the Social Drama of Revenge in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 8 The Quality of Revenge: Debt, Reciprocity, and Portia's "Vantage" in The Merchant of Venice -- 9 Women's Gall, Women's Grace: Female Friendship, Moral Rebuke, and the Vindictive Passions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9781575911632


Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Revenge in literature.
Women in literature.


Electronic books.

PR2991 -- .T37 2011eb

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