Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in ShakespeareStanford University Press, 01/06/1982 - 212 páginas This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest. |
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... relationships , imagi- nation , intuition , nature , and so on . In their different ways Cleopatra , Miranda , Rosalind , and Queen Isabel are all versions of the Jungian feminine . But this is not the feminine in Shakespeare that ...
... relationships , imagi- nation , intuition , nature , and so on . In their different ways Cleopatra , Miranda , Rosalind , and Queen Isabel are all versions of the Jungian feminine . But this is not the feminine in Shakespeare that ...
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... relationship , the imagination of the feminine as it changes from genre to genre determines the nature of the enterprise for the male . Neither Shake- speare nor his work , then , can be wholly assimilated to feminism . Feminism is a ...
... relationship , the imagination of the feminine as it changes from genre to genre determines the nature of the enterprise for the male . Neither Shake- speare nor his work , then , can be wholly assimilated to feminism . Feminism is a ...
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... relationship with Hamlet , and her atten- tions to him in the last scene are unaffectedly cheerful : The Queen carouses to thy fortune , Hamlet . Come , let me wipe thy face . ( V.ii.291 , 296 ) But of course it is not Gertrude who is ...
... relationship with Hamlet , and her atten- tions to him in the last scene are unaffectedly cheerful : The Queen carouses to thy fortune , Hamlet . Come , let me wipe thy face . ( V.ii.291 , 296 ) But of course it is not Gertrude who is ...
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... relationships to women . Only in the heroes ' worst moments — only when , as May- nard Mack puts it , the hero has " become his own antitheses " 19 does the misogyny break out . In these four works the play itself makes the point that ...
... relationships to women . Only in the heroes ' worst moments — only when , as May- nard Mack puts it , the hero has " become his own antitheses " 19 does the misogyny break out . In these four works the play itself makes the point that ...
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Índice
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TWO Antony and Cleopatra | 45 |
THREE Hamlet | 71 |
FOUR Macbeth and Coriolanus | 91 |
FIVE The Comic Heroine and the Avoidance | 109 |
Toward Tragedy | 135 |
The Tempest | 169 |
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Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare Linda Bamber Pré-visualização indisponível - 1982 |
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aggression Antony and Cleopatra Antony's battle betrayed Caesar Caliban challenge choice comic heroine conflict consciousness contrast Cordelia Coriolanus Coriolanus's course criticism Danby daughter death defined Desdemona desire dialectic drama Egypt emotion Enobarbus father feelings female feminine feminist Fiedler final Fitz genre Gertrude Gertrude's Hamlet Henry Hermione hero's history hero history plays honor Hotspur husband identity imagine instance Kate kill King Lear Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Laertes Lear's Leontes Leslie Fiedler Macbeth and Coriolanus male manliness masculine masculine-historical Miranda misogyny mother Nature never Octavia Ophelia Orsino Othello Perdita Petruchio political Portia projection Prospero refuses relationship represents resolution Richard Richard II role romances Rome says scene seems sense sexual Shakespeare Shakespearean comedy Shakespearean tragedy shrew simply speech struggle tells Tempest thee things thou tion tragic hero Twelfth Night Viola Virgilia Volumnia whereas wife Winter's Tale woman
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Shakespeare Recycled: The Making of Historical Drama Graham Holderness Pré-visualização indisponível - 1992 |
Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D.W ..., Página 4 Peter L. Rudnytsky Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |