Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: Study of King Lear, Othello the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil |
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... transgression are inherently destabilising , of course , since they are not monolithic categories . Inversion , however , is licensed disruption and therefore cannot logically constitute transgression which requires violations which are ...
... transgression are inherently destabilising , of course , since they are not monolithic categories . Inversion , however , is licensed disruption and therefore cannot logically constitute transgression which requires violations which are ...
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... transgression . The Duchess of Malfi , Vittoria Corombona , Desdemona and Cordelia all transgress but Cordelia and ... transgression is useful to an analysis of female transgression in tragedy because it allows for that complex category ...
... transgression . The Duchess of Malfi , Vittoria Corombona , Desdemona and Cordelia all transgress but Cordelia and ... transgression is useful to an analysis of female transgression in tragedy because it allows for that complex category ...
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... Transgression is an action which involves the limit , that narrow zone of a line where it displays the flash of its passage , but perhaps also its entire trajectory , even its origin ; it is likely that transgression has its entire ...
... Transgression is an action which involves the limit , that narrow zone of a line where it displays the flash of its passage , but perhaps also its entire trajectory , even its origin ; it is likely that transgression has its entire ...
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