In another country: feminist perspectives on Renaissance dramaThis anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal. Essayists include Laura Bromley, Mary Ann Bushman, Christy Desmet, Coppelia Kahn, Margaret Mikesell, Thomas Moisan, Jeanie Grant Moorem Phyllis Rackin, James Schiffer, Jeremy Tambling, Carolyn Whitney-Brown, and the editors. With extensive bibliographies. |
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Before we see her, in Act I, scene ii, we have heard Lodovico speak of the
injustice and corruption of their society. His banishment is not a just punishment,
but a political expedient for the more powerful men who commissioned his crimes
.
Before we see her, in Act I, scene ii, we have heard Lodovico speak of the
injustice and corruption of their society. His banishment is not a just punishment,
but a political expedient for the more powerful men who commissioned his crimes
.
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Those who see Vittoria as a devil, dangerous and manipulative, find most
evidence of her nature in the second scene of Act IV. And yet nowhere in the play
is her essential powerlessness more apparent. In fact, the relative power of all the
...
Those who see Vittoria as a devil, dangerous and manipulative, find most
evidence of her nature in the second scene of Act IV. And yet nowhere in the play
is her essential powerlessness more apparent. In fact, the relative power of all the
...
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She is silenced and humbled by Cornelia's judgment, while Flamineo disparages
and dismisses it. The alliance of Zanche and Vittoria in Flamineo's "death" scene
raises a more difficult question about the connection between the two women.
She is silenced and humbled by Cornelia's judgment, while Flamineo disparages
and dismisses it. The alliance of Zanche and Vittoria in Flamineo's "death" scene
raises a more difficult question about the connection between the two women.
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Introduction Dorothea Kehler and Susan Baker | 1 |
Reflections | 19 |
Laura G Bromley | 50 |
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In Another Country: Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Drama Dorothea Kehler Vista previa limitada - 1991 |
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