Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies
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.
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literature's great tragedies begins to unfold.
Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behavior. Rape, suicide, child-murder, incestuous love, madness, and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings.
This is classic from G. C. Verplanck, Editor, published in New York: Harper & Brothers. 790 pages Shakespeare - Complete Tragedies Content: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, Titus Andronicus, Pericles
Edited by G. C. Verplanck New York: Harper & Brothers. 1847
