Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... stage for much of the time and so her literal absences and often mute stage presences provide interesting and telling holes in the play . In Act I scene ii , Vittoria has a mere two lines of welcome to Bracciano before she departs to re ...
... stage for much of the time and so her literal absences and often mute stage presences provide interesting and telling holes in the play . In Act I scene ii , Vittoria has a mere two lines of welcome to Bracciano before she departs to re ...
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... stage and by the audience in a way that male bodies are not . A dead man on stage swiftly becomes part of the stage furniture , and even in the death of the tragic hero , we glance at him only momentarily before the curtain falls and ...
... stage and by the audience in a way that male bodies are not . A dead man on stage swiftly becomes part of the stage furniture , and even in the death of the tragic hero , we glance at him only momentarily before the curtain falls and ...
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... stage presences have been somewhat fleeting and intermittent . In tragedy , female longevity is as unusual as Vittoria's mode of dying . As a shadowy presence in all previous Acts , her absent presence is asserted finally not through ...
... stage presences have been somewhat fleeting and intermittent . In tragedy , female longevity is as unusual as Vittoria's mode of dying . As a shadowy presence in all previous Acts , her absent presence is asserted finally not through ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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