Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 17
Page 166
... phallus is necessarily variable because that value is always constructed / ' erected ' . So , the meaning of the phallus is particularly dependent upon class . For example , the fool's phallic instrument , the bauble , is the ...
... phallus is necessarily variable because that value is always constructed / ' erected ' . So , the meaning of the phallus is particularly dependent upon class . For example , the fool's phallic instrument , the bauble , is the ...
Page 167
... phallus as faeces . ' Veiling ' is where the duality of the phallic symbol occurs . So fools juggle with the duality of power - unmasking authority as necessarily symbolic . even , The Fool in King Lear toys with the opposition of head ...
... phallus as faeces . ' Veiling ' is where the duality of the phallic symbol occurs . So fools juggle with the duality of power - unmasking authority as necessarily symbolic . even , The Fool in King Lear toys with the opposition of head ...
Page 168
... phallus an inversion of the head and the anal and genital areas is usually involved , as in the equation of the ... phallus and the equivalent of it . Female speech is a threat to phallic power . Even the divine Desdemona ' Is free of ...
... phallus an inversion of the head and the anal and genital areas is usually involved , as in the equation of the ... phallus and the equivalent of it . Female speech is a threat to phallic power . Even the divine Desdemona ' Is free of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
30 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alan Sinfield Antonio argues audience becomes Bosola Brabantio Bracciano Camillo Cassio category of woman Catherine Belsey characterised chaste comedy comic concept constitutes construction contradictions Cordelia crucial cuckold cultural curse daughter death defined demonic Desdemona Difference in Renaissance dominant dramatic Duchess of Malfi English Renaissance example exile exorcism fact father female characters female tragic feminine feminist feminist criticism Flamineo Fool function gender categories gender difference gender differentiation Goneril Goneril and Regan Harvester Press hierarchy human husband Iago Iago's idealised ideology Interestingly Jacobean Jacqueline Rose Jacques Lacan Jonathan Dollimore Juliet Mitchell King Lear Lear's literary London malcontent male marriage masculinity Methuen misogynistic misogynistic discourse misogyny monstrous mother nature Othello patriarchal phallic power phallus play political position Quoted Renaissance tragedy sexual desire sexual difference Shakespeare silence Similarly social speech sword symbolic thee thou tragic hero transcendence undermines University Press Vittoria White Devil whore women York