Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in ShakespeareStanford University Press, 01 հնս, 1982 թ. - 212 էջ 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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... lady ' : 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 ...
... lady ' : 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 ...
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... 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 evil is inseparable from their ...
... 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 evil is inseparable from their ...
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... Lady Macbeth's murderous ambition is more horrible than her husband's because a woman , as this speech reminds us , should represent nurture and human connectedness . Lady Macbeth is not entirely a monster ; she does refrain from ...
... Lady Macbeth's murderous ambition is more horrible than her husband's because a woman , as this speech reminds us , should represent nurture and human connectedness . Lady Macbeth is not entirely a monster ; she does refrain from ...
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... Lady Macbeth , Ophelia — worries or changes her mind about who she is . One of these women , Cleopatra , seems protean ; but it is not she who worries about her changes — it is Antony , and us . The tragic heroes , moreover , give the ...
... Lady Macbeth , Ophelia — worries or changes her mind about who she is . One of these women , Cleopatra , seems protean ; but it is not she who worries about her changes — it is Antony , and us . The tragic heroes , moreover , give the ...
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... Lady Macbeth's madness , which reveals un- suspected elements of her personality . But even when , as in the case of Lady Macbeth , something hidden is revealed , it is only revealed to us , never to the character herself . Cleopatra ...
... Lady Macbeth's madness , which reveals un- suspected elements of her personality . But even when , as in the case of Lady Macbeth , something hidden is revealed , it is only revealed to us , never to the character herself . Cleopatra ...
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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 Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 1982 |
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