Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... feminist critics , in favour of addressing the construction of gender categories in Renaissance discourses about masculinity and femininity . I shall address this issue within and also beyond the literary text . Literary criticism has ...
... feminist critics , in favour of addressing the construction of gender categories in Renaissance discourses about masculinity and femininity . I shall address this issue within and also beyond the literary text . Literary criticism has ...
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... feminist studies on tragedy , it remains true that comedy is the preferred genre of feminist criticism.37 Linda Woodbridge , an optimistic though far from naive feminist who tends to privilege comedy , asserts that ' Renaissance attacks ...
... feminist studies on tragedy , it remains true that comedy is the preferred genre of feminist criticism.37 Linda Woodbridge , an optimistic though far from naive feminist who tends to privilege comedy , asserts that ' Renaissance attacks ...
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... feminist criticism is weakened by the fact that it concentrates on work from the period 1980–2 , a time when feminist Shakespeare criticism is assumed to have presented its manifesto . This , however , dismisses all subsequent work ...
... feminist criticism is weakened by the fact that it concentrates on work from the period 1980–2 , a time when feminist Shakespeare criticism is assumed to have presented its manifesto . This , however , dismisses all subsequent work ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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