Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in ShakespeareStanford University Press, 01.06.1982 - 212 Seiten 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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... begin . But Shakespeare's gender - centered relations with women are interesting not merely because the Other is privileged in one of his genres . What is most striking is that in every genre the possibilities for the masculine Self and ...
... begin . But Shakespeare's gender - centered relations with women are interesting not merely because the Other is privileged in one of his genres . What is most striking is that in every genre the possibilities for the masculine Self and ...
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... begin with concerned with himself ; the first privilege of the Self is to have an extra Self who comments on or is simply aware of the original one . The tragic hero explains and justifies himself , he finds fault with himself , he ...
... begin with concerned with himself ; the first privilege of the Self is to have an extra Self who comments on or is simply aware of the original one . The tragic hero explains and justifies himself , he finds fault with himself , he ...
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... begin with , not because they seem to have become something new . The point can be made by comparing two minor characters , Enobarbus and Gertrude . Enobarbus , of course , is not the hero of Antony and Cleopatra ; the play is not about ...
... begin with , not because they seem to have become something new . The point can be made by comparing two minor characters , Enobarbus and Gertrude . Enobarbus , of course , is not the hero of Antony and Cleopatra ; the play is not about ...
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... begin to even up . Male characters in fictions by women vary as greatly as female characters in fictions by men , and they will continue to do so . They may be dull and schematic or they may be alive with the energy of their authors ...
... begin to even up . Male characters in fictions by women vary as greatly as female characters in fictions by men , and they will continue to do so . They may be dull and schematic or they may be alive with the energy of their authors ...
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Inhalt
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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 Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1982 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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