Shakespeare's suicides

Shakespeare's suicides: dead bodies that matter

by Tronicke, Marlena

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"Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare's dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters suc…

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  • Full title :Shakespeare's suicides : dead bodies that matter / Marlena Tronicke.

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"Shakespeare's Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare's dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare's genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse."--Provided by publisher

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018.
  • Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781351213196, 9781351213189, 1351213180, 1351213199
  • oclc:on1011476965
  • LC Classification:PR2997.S78
  • Dewey Decimal:810/820

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Knitting the cord: Titus Andronicus -- Happy daggers: Romeo and Juliet -- Roman fools: Julius Caesar -- Solid flesh: Hamlet -- Before we go: Othello -- Promised ends: King Lear -- Trying the last: Macbeth -- Well done: Antony and Cleopatra -- Epilogue.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Death in literature Mort dans la littérature Shakespeare, William Suicide dans la littérature Suicide in literature

Writers

Tronicke, Marlena

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