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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... Female Metaphor in The Winter's Tale , " Patricia Gourlay finds in The Winter's Tale " the triumph of female values over the masculine social order " ; 3 in " The Taming of the Shrew : Shakespeare's Mirror of Marriage , " Coppelia Kahn ...
... Female Metaphor in The Winter's Tale , " Patricia Gourlay finds in The Winter's Tale " the triumph of female values over the masculine social order " ; 3 in " The Taming of the Shrew : Shakespeare's Mirror of Marriage , " Coppelia Kahn ...
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... female figures as Goneril , Regan , Lady Macbeth , and Volumnia . How are we to account for these terrible portraits , charged as they are with sexual antagonism ? For these characters are not just women who happen to be evil ; their ...
... female figures as Goneril , Regan , Lady Macbeth , and Volumnia . How are we to account for these terrible portraits , charged as they are with sexual antagonism ? For these characters are not just women who happen to be evil ; their ...
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... female sexuality pass over into hysteria , " he says , citing Lear's mad rant Down from the waist they are Centaurs , Though women all above : But to the girdle do the gods inherit , Beneath is all the fiend's . There's hell , there's ...
... female sexuality pass over into hysteria , " he says , citing Lear's mad rant Down from the waist they are Centaurs , Though women all above : But to the girdle do the gods inherit , Beneath is all the fiend's . There's hell , there's ...
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... female charac- ters are partial representations : Woman with a capital W. Some- times the feminine in Shakespeare is the cultural stereotype of the feminine , the feminine that Jungians refer to . This feminine is associated with the ...
... female charac- ters are partial representations : Woman with a capital W. Some- times the feminine in Shakespeare is the cultural stereotype of the feminine , the feminine that Jungians refer to . This feminine is associated with the ...
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... female chauvinism is a separate issue . Sexual chauvinism assumes the superiority of one's own sex ; gender - centered writing merely reveals the author's sense of identification with his or her own sex . It is natural for a writer to ...
... female chauvinism is a separate issue . Sexual chauvinism assumes the superiority of one's own sex ; gender - centered writing merely reveals the author's sense of identification with his or her own sex . It is natural for a writer to ...
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 limitada - 1982 |
Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare Linda Bamber Pré-visualização indisponível - 1982 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Referências a este livro
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 |