Format:
1 Online-Ressource (303 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023
Series Statement:
Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Content:
Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman's body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as 'menopause'. Although 'menopause' was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large
Note:
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Menopausal Gertrude and the Petrified Womb.- Chapter 3: Menopausal Tamora and the Vegetable Womb.- Chapter 4: Menopausal Volumnia and the Animal Womb.- Chapter 5: Menopausal Lady Macbeth and the Envious Womb.- Chapter 6: Menopausal Cleopatra and the Cyborg Womb.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031272035
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McMahon, Victoria L. Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023 ISBN 9783031272035
Language:
English
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