Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) - Tapa dura

"The book's great triumph is that one puts it down believing that without it, those conventional readings are no longer complete.--Stephen Cohen, University of Douth Alabama." "Suitable for...undergraduates, graduates and researchers." -"Choice May 2000

Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.