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Author Tassi, Marguerite A., 1965-

Title Women and revenge in Shakespeare [electronic resource] : gender, genre, and ethics / Marguerite A. Tassi.

Imprint Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press, 2011.

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Description 344 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Women and revenge: some literary, iconographic, and intellectual foundations -- Valorous tongues, lamenting voices: the expressive ethics of female inciters in Shakespeare's plays -- Reporting the women's causes aright: wounded names and revenge narratives in Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Much ado about nothing -- Hecuba's legacy: wounded maternity and vengeance in the First tetralogy and Titus Andronicus -- "Revenging home": Cordelia and the virtue of vengeance -- Twelfth night, or what Maria wills -- Feminine vindication and the social drama of revenge in The merry wives of Windsor -- The quality of revenge: debt, reciprocity, and Portia's "vantage" in The merchant of Venice -- Women's gall, women's grace: female friendship, moral rebuke, and the vindictive passions.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Revenge in literature.
Women in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781575911311 (alk. paper)
9781575911632 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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