Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... serve to demystify the assumption . that ' man ' is at the centre of his universe . Male tragic trascendence , then , can be interrogated through the category of transgression . Specifically , female transgression undermines the ...
... serve to demystify the assumption . that ' man ' is at the centre of his universe . Male tragic trascendence , then , can be interrogated through the category of transgression . Specifically , female transgression undermines the ...
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... serves to efface anything other than the physical act of coitus . Obviously , misogyny eradicates the complexity of human relationships . Iago's language shows forth in the most vulgar language imaginable what it is impossible for ...
... serves to efface anything other than the physical act of coitus . Obviously , misogyny eradicates the complexity of human relationships . Iago's language shows forth in the most vulgar language imaginable what it is impossible for ...
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... serve to produce a legislative divide which creates and reproduces gender categories . This boundary not only produces ... serves to break down the unities of gender by recognising that discourse simultaneously constructs and disperses ...
... serve to produce a legislative divide which creates and reproduces gender categories . This boundary not only produces ... serves to break down the unities of gender by recognising that discourse simultaneously constructs and disperses ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
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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