Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... final pronouncement was not the song but a false self - indictment , a fact that has often puzzled critics , who have variously argued that this proves either her moral ambiguity or that she protects Othello with her last breath in the ...
... final pronouncement was not the song but a false self - indictment , a fact that has often puzzled critics , who have variously argued that this proves either her moral ambiguity or that she protects Othello with her last breath in the ...
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... final movement Lear is rendered subject to Cordelia's castrating gaze . Othello's masculinity , like Lear's ... final ' erection ' and detumescence ; a final assertion of the former masculine self , but asserted against the self . Any ...
... final movement Lear is rendered subject to Cordelia's castrating gaze . Othello's masculinity , like Lear's ... final ' erection ' and detumescence ; a final assertion of the former masculine self , but asserted against the self . Any ...
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... final moment of recognition for the characters and for the audience from which events of the story are in retrospect fully intelligible . ' Catherine Belsey , The Subject of Tragedy : Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama ( New ...
... final moment of recognition for the characters and for the audience from which events of the story are in retrospect fully intelligible . ' Catherine Belsey , The Subject of Tragedy : Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama ( New ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
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