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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... Tragedy 135 SEVEN After Tragedy : The Tempest 169 Notes 195 Index 203 Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful for the help I had.
... Tragedy 135 SEVEN After Tragedy : The Tempest 169 Notes 195 Index 203 Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful for the help I had.
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... Tragedy : The Tempest , " has benefited from her work on it . Many other friends read the manuscript in various forms and have supported my work in important ways : Sylvan Barnet , Mar- jorie Berger , Marianne De Koven , Eva Hoffman ...
... Tragedy : The Tempest , " has benefited from her work on it . Many other friends read the manuscript in various forms and have supported my work in important ways : Sylvan Barnet , Mar- jorie Berger , Marianne De Koven , Eva Hoffman ...
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... tragedies . We have also to account for the violent misogyny of the very characters we feel closest to . Lear , Hamlet , Antony , and Othello all turn on women at some point or other in hatred and disgust . Leslie Fiedler goes so far as ...
... tragedies . We have also to account for the violent misogyny of the very characters we feel closest to . Lear , Hamlet , Antony , and Othello all turn on women at some point or other in hatred and disgust . Leslie Fiedler goes so far as ...
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... tragedy , the Other in com- edy ; it is with these two genres , therefore , that I shall begin . But Shakespeare's gender - centered relations with women are interesting not merely because the Other is privileged in one of his genres ...
... tragedy , the Other in com- edy ; it is with these two genres , therefore , that I shall begin . But Shakespeare's gender - centered relations with women are interesting not merely because the Other is privileged in one of his genres ...
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... tragedy , comedy , and romance — Shakespeare as- sociates with the feminine . It is not that he is always sympathetic to his women characters or even to their femininity ; it is that after history the two genders are equal within the ...
... tragedy , comedy , and romance — Shakespeare as- sociates with the feminine . It is not that he is always sympathetic to his women characters or even to their femininity ; it is that after history the two genders are equal within the ...
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 Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1982 |
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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