Woman and gender in Renaissance tragedy : a study of King Lear, Othello, the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil

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Woman and gender in Renaissance tragedy : a study of King Lear, Othello, the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil

Dympna Callaghan

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [173]-181

Includes index

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内容説明

Drawing on recent developments in critical and psychoanalytic theory, this feminist study offers a radical reading of gender in Renaissance tragedy by looking at constructions of the category "woman" through language, ideology and subjectivity, thereby challenging the notion that key heroines of 16th- and 17th-century drama can be seen as representations of Renaissance womankind.

目次

  • Part 1 The centrality of gender: feminism and tragedy - argument by antithesis, argument by analogy, the family, the family and the Church, cosmos
  • foregrounding gender and tragedy
  • feminism - genre and power. Part 2 Woman, tragedy and transgression: tragedy - the Renaissance concept of tragedy, transcendence versus transgression, woman and the tragic paradigm, decentring the tragic hero
  • the construction of woman through absence, silence and utterance
  • feminine endings or dead centres. Part 3 Gender differentiation in tragedy: the patriarchal imperative
  • exorcism and exile
  • misogyny and the misogynistic voice
  • ambition and lechery - desire and the malcontent
  • a monstrous desire
  • in praise of woman
  • masculinity and power - impuissance, potency.

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