Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... appears only at the opening and at the end of King Lear , the Duchess of Malfi is dead by the end of Act IV , Vittoria Corombona , rarely on stage , often stands silently , and Desdemona , who has fewer speeches than either lago or ...
... appears only at the opening and at the end of King Lear , the Duchess of Malfi is dead by the end of Act IV , Vittoria Corombona , rarely on stage , often stands silently , and Desdemona , who has fewer speeches than either lago or ...
Page 75
... appears , after a good press from the other characters , his entry is rather dramatic . But even when Vittoria reappears , we have to wait for the space of 116 lines before she utters more than a few words . The Machereyan absence at ...
... appears , after a good press from the other characters , his entry is rather dramatic . But even when Vittoria reappears , we have to wait for the space of 116 lines before she utters more than a few words . The Machereyan absence at ...
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... appears at once to neutralise the vicious nature of the misogynistic utterance and to ensure audience complicity in derogatory statements about women . Laughter secures and ratifies the misogynistic utterance in a process which combines ...
... appears at once to neutralise the vicious nature of the misogynistic utterance and to ensure audience complicity in derogatory statements about women . Laughter secures and ratifies the misogynistic utterance in a process which combines ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
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