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| Datum: | 1999 |
| Titel: | Uncertain identities : aristocratic women of English Renaissance drama |
| Autor*in: | Turner, Kimberly Ann |
| Beschreibung: | Often, women stand out as being some of the most interesting and ambiguous characters in English drama. In this study, I examine moments in five Renaissance plays in which female characters reject the extreme dichotomies that were used by society to describe women. In the first portion of the paper, I look at the ways in which malcontents are similar to unconventional female characters in that they both challenge existing patriarchal structures. Secondly, I explore the characters of Mellida, Sophonisba, and Desdemona who begin to assert their own desires, while at the same time, they continue to embody more traditional notions of femininity. Finally, I look at the Duchess of Malfi, who perhaps more than any character in Renaissance drama, consciously creates a new kind of life in which she is not limited by reductive and arbitrary binaries concerning the definitions of women. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/82236 |
| Quelle: | https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2362&context=masters-theses https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/1354 |
| AMAD ID: | 699285 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
