Feminism and Shakesperian Tragedy

Deviating from the critical interpretations on Shakespeare offered by theNeo-classicists, the Romantics, the Victorians, and the Moderns, the book entitled Feminism and Shakespearian Tragedy correlates Hamlet, Othello, King Lear , and Macbeth with the modern Feminist theory. It depicts how the patriarchy in Shakespeare’s great tragedies tends to coerce and oppress women who ultimately rise in revolt and dent the patriarchal hegemony. Misogynism, Seduction and Subjugation of women have been dealt with a feminist fervour. Hamlet, Lear, Othello, and Iago emerge as misogynists, while shy looking Desdemona, Cordelia, and Emilia as firebrand revolutionaries.