Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... dramatic and cultural specificity as a central construction of a variety of discourses employed in tragedy in both critical and dramatic practices . I will endeavour to analyse how dramatic representations mobilise certain logical and ...
... dramatic and cultural specificity as a central construction of a variety of discourses employed in tragedy in both critical and dramatic practices . I will endeavour to analyse how dramatic representations mobilise certain logical and ...
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... dramatic signification can take place . Female speech marks the stark dramatic alternatives of silence and utterance . Vittoria is not on stage for much of the time and so her literal absences and often mute stage presences provide ...
... dramatic signification can take place . Female speech marks the stark dramatic alternatives of silence and utterance . Vittoria is not on stage for much of the time and so her literal absences and often mute stage presences provide ...
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... dramatic exposition of Vittoria's character completely undercuts any notion of tragic individualism . Her characterisation never develops through soliloquy , nor even through lengthy speeches . It is , in dramatic terms , completely ...
... dramatic exposition of Vittoria's character completely undercuts any notion of tragic individualism . Her characterisation never develops through soliloquy , nor even through lengthy speeches . It is , in dramatic terms , completely ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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