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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... responses to their work . The logical conclusion of such criticism is silence . If these authors offend us , we should refuse to write about them , refuse to teach them , refuse to do our part in keeping them alive in the culture ...
... responses to their work . The logical conclusion of such criticism is silence . If these authors offend us , we should refuse to write about them , refuse to teach them , refuse to do our part in keeping them alive in the culture ...
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... response to their work , important as it has been to my thinking , is to insist on Shakespeare's indifference to , independence of , and distance from this system . My approach locates the feminism in the critic — not in the author or ...
... response to their work , important as it has been to my thinking , is to insist on Shakespeare's indifference to , independence of , and distance from this system . My approach locates the feminism in the critic — not in the author or ...
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... response to the feminine is central to the general significance of his work . By " the feminine " I mean to imply some general principle of which the individual female charac- ters are partial representations : Woman with a capital W ...
... response to the feminine is central to the general significance of his work . By " the feminine " I mean to imply some general principle of which the individual female charac- ters are partial representations : Woman with a capital W ...
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... response to his guilt . Enobarbus's recognition is explicit : he 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 ...
... response to his guilt . Enobarbus's recognition is explicit : he 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 ...
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... response to the claims of individual women and women in turn respond to the changing culture . One way and another , we may finally be moving away from a society with a single focal point . The culture is no longer so firmly centered on ...
... response to the claims of individual women and women in turn respond to the changing culture . One way and another , we may finally be moving away from a society with a single focal point . The culture is no longer so firmly centered on ...
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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