Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) Book

Are the values inherent in Shakespeare's Roman works--virtue, principle, stoicism, self-discipline--embodied solely in Shakespeare's male characters? Roman Shakespeare argues that these virtues are not gender neutral; rather, they comprise a system of sexual difference engendering a particularly male subject: the Roman hero.Coppelia Kahn, an established feminist, literary, and Shakespearean critic, argues that Shakespeare's Roman heroes strive to prove their manhood through the exhibition of the "wound"--a mark of male virtue as well as feminine vulnerability. Kahn interprets the construction of masculinity in Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline, while also examining the symbol of women as representative of emotion and dependency.Read More

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  • 0415054516
  • 9780415054515
  • Coppélia Kahn
  • 27 March 1997
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
  • 1
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