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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... calls it " a retraction . " As a value system , therefore , the feminist ideas of this article are in conflict with our evaluation of Shake- speare as a whole . Only some plays can be grouped to illustrate a progression toward the ...
... calls it " a retraction . " As a value system , therefore , the feminist ideas of this article are in conflict with our evaluation of Shake- speare as a whole . Only some plays can be grouped to illustrate a progression toward the ...
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... calls Antony " Nobler than my revolt is infamous " ( IV.ix.19 ) and kills himself for very shame . Gertrude's recognition is only implicit , but we can infer it from her responses to Hamlet toward the end of the closet scene . " O ...
... calls Antony " Nobler than my revolt is infamous " ( IV.ix.19 ) and kills himself for very shame . Gertrude's recognition is only implicit , but we can infer it from her responses to Hamlet toward the end of the closet scene . " O ...
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... calls for is not an androgynous vision on the part of men but a " reciprocal claim " to be made by women , " the other con- sciousness . " This , says de Beauvoir , is what women have been unwilling to do ; but of course since 1949 ...
... calls for is not an androgynous vision on the part of men but a " reciprocal claim " to be made by women , " the other con- sciousness . " This , says de Beauvoir , is what women have been unwilling to do ; but of course since 1949 ...
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... calls for will take place within the world of fiction itself as each sex claims to be the Self and creates the other as an Other . The claims of each sex to be the subject will be heard more equally by the culture as more and more women ...
... calls for will take place within the world of fiction itself as each sex claims to be the Self and creates the other as an Other . The claims of each sex to be the subject will be heard more equally by the culture as more and more women ...
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... calls attention , for instance , to the contrast between the " genuine intimacy of the women " and " the hypocritical friendship of the men . " The male world is to blame for the tragedy : " The men see the women as 12 Comic Women ...
... calls attention , for instance , to the contrast between the " genuine intimacy of the women " and " the hypocritical friendship of the men . " The male world is to blame for the tragedy : " The men see the women as 12 Comic Women ...
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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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