Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy
by Cristina León Alfar
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ISBN: 978-1611492095
Published in 2003
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In light of cultural materialist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theoretical investigations of literature, history, and culture, Cristina León Alfar examines what has been left out of a western scholarly tradition on William Shakespeare's "evil" women. She argues that by attending to the sociopolitical basic of the tragedies, the women characters traditionally identified as evil might instead by read as pressing against early modern popular beliefs about female nature.
