Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... traditional criticism as a play more suitable for reading than performance , has long been a favourite text of Marxist critics , while Othello has been given considerable attention in recent years by feminist critics , who have ...
... traditional criticism as a play more suitable for reading than performance , has long been a favourite text of Marxist critics , while Othello has been given considerable attention in recent years by feminist critics , who have ...
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... traditional notion that women ( or at least good women ) are the measures of morality in drama . But if female characters are moral touchstones , they are so in a far more complex sense than the phrase usually allows . That is , they ...
... traditional notion that women ( or at least good women ) are the measures of morality in drama . But if female characters are moral touchstones , they are so in a far more complex sense than the phrase usually allows . That is , they ...
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... traditional criticism has ignored because it would sully the purity of tragedy as the locus of the highest of human ( male ) virtues , and which feminist criticism has been reluctant to address because it might tarnish the optimism of ...
... traditional criticism has ignored because it would sully the purity of tragedy as the locus of the highest of human ( male ) virtues , and which feminist criticism has been reluctant to address because it might tarnish the optimism of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Centrality of Gender | 7 |
Feminism and Tragedy | 9 |
Copyright | |
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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