SOURCE: “History into Tragedy: The Case of Richard III,” in Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender, edited by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether, Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. 31-53.
In the following essay, Rackin identifies the ways in which the women's roles in Richard III differed from those in his earlier historical plays, arguing that the disempowering of female characters seen in Richard III is related to Shakespeare's movement away from history towards tragedy.
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