Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare

by Linda Bamber

This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804711267
• ISBN13: 9780804711265
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.