Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... speech , silence , absence and presence operate contrapuntally so that the traces of absence and silence are always latent in speech and presence . Macherey argues : ' By speech , silence becomes the centre and principle of expression ...
... speech , silence , absence and presence operate contrapuntally so that the traces of absence and silence are always latent in speech and presence . Macherey argues : ' By speech , silence becomes the centre and principle of expression ...
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... speech in the various forms of trial that punctuate and structure all four of the tragedies that concern us here . But the limited opportunity for oratory trials allowed is double edged because in them female characters are ...
... speech in the various forms of trial that punctuate and structure all four of the tragedies that concern us here . But the limited opportunity for oratory trials allowed is double edged because in them female characters are ...
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... speech becomes a virtue here , and it is Iago's silence that is the evil . Indeed , Eamon Grennan uses J. L. Austin's speech act theory to argue that women's voices provide ' the moral measure ' of the play.19 Earlier , of course ...
... speech becomes a virtue here , and it is Iago's silence that is the evil . Indeed , Eamon Grennan uses J. L. Austin's speech act theory to argue that women's voices provide ' the moral measure ' of the play.19 Earlier , of course ...
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