The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama

《The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama》是2002年出版的圖書，作者是Liebler, Naomi Conn。

基本介紹

• 外文名：The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama 
• 作者：Liebler, Naomi Conn
• 出版時間：2002年4月
• 頁數：256 頁
• ISBN：9780312220594

內容簡介

This book constitutes a new direction for feminist studies in English Renaissance drama. While feminist scholars have long celebrated heroic females in comedies, many have overlooked female tragic heroism, reading it instead as evidence of pervasive misogyny on the part of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Displacing prevailing arguments of "victim feminism," the contributors to this volume engage a wide range of feminist theories, and argue that female protagonists in tragedies--Jocasta, Juliet, Cleopatra, Mariam, Webster's Duchess and White Devil, among others--are heroic in precisely the same ways as their more notorious masculine counterparts.。