Shakespeare S Unmuted Women

Author : Gül Kurtuluş
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040036068

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Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning insight as a vital ingredient in these selected works. The book discusses the use of rhetoric in speeches by women as a cementing material that supports the casing of the incidents. Women holding forth on the issues related to the common concerns emerged in the plays perform a distinguishing role in strengthening the bond between decisions taken and executed by each character and make their major important contribution to the overall impact of the play. Comprising six chapters, the volume analyses Cordelia’s and Desdemona’s speeches in King Lear and Othello; Cleopatra’s and Tamora’s speeches in Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus; Beatrice’s and Rosalind’s speeches in Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It; and Katherine’s and Lady Anne’s speeches in Henry V and Richard III, respectively. The text discusses women’s rich and profound discourse in these works to accentuate the meaningful input in verbal communication. In Shakespeare’s selected plays, women’s insightfulness and perspicuity are closely considered to emphasize how women make efficient use of rhetoric, aptly used by Queen Elizabeth I during Shakespeare’s time. Queen Elizabeth’s outstanding public speeches inspired those who listened to her and Shakespeare’s women are partial embodiments of her.

Author : Gül Kurtuluş
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1032612193

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Shakespeare's Unmuted Women by Gül Kurtuluş Pdf

Shakespeare's Unmuted Women explores women's speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women's discerning insight as a vital ingredient in these selected works. The book discusses the use of rhetoric in speeches by women as a cementing material that supports the casing of the incidents. Women holding forth on the issues related to the common concerns emerged in the plays perform a distinguishing role in strengthening the bond between decisions taken and executed by each character and make their major important contribution to the overall impact of the play. Comprising six chapters, the volume analyses Cordelia's and Desdemona's speeches in King Lear and Othello; Cleopatra's and Tamora's speeches in Antony and Cleopatra and Titus Andronicus; Beatrice's and Rosalind's speeches in Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It; and Katherine's and Lady Anne's speeches in Henry V and Richard III, respectively. The text discusses women's rich and profound discourse in these works to accentuate the meaningful input in verbal communication. In Shakespeare's selected plays, women's insightfulness and perspicuity are closely considered to emphasize how women make efficient use of rhetoric, aptly used by Queen Elizabeth I during Shakespeare's time. Queen Elizabeth's outstanding public speeches inspired those who listened to her and Shakespeare's women are partial embodiments of her.

Author : Gül Kurtulus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032612207

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Shakespeares Unmuted Women by Gül Kurtulus Pdf

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134633128

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Shakespeare Without Women by Dympna Callaghan Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317271086

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The Women of Shakespeare by Frank Harris Pdf

Frank Harris argues that the way women are presented in Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are a reflection of the real-life women in his life, namely his wife, mother, mistress and daughter. Originally published in 1911, The Women of Shakespeare also analyses the traditional criticism of the time and places his own views in this context. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature.

Author : Courtni Crump Wright
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0819188263

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The Women of Shakespeare's Plays by Courtni Crump Wright Pdf

This book analyzes, through easy-to-follow play synopses, the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists as they impact not only the plot of Shakespeare's plays but the male protagonist. Selected, condensed one-act versions of the plays are provided in order to enrich the discussion of the play, to stimulate in reading the play in its entirety, and to provide a springboard for group discussion of the play and the impact of the women. Contents: William Shakespeare: His Art, Life and Times; The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: An Overview; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello the Moor of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; Antony and Cleopatra; Twelfth Night or What You Will; Romeo and Juliet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Bibliography.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349245314

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.

Author : Marguerite A. Tassi
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781575911311

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Women and Revenge in Shakespeare by Marguerite A. Tassi Pdf

Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these. A surprising number of Shakespeare's female characters respond to moral outrages by expressing a strong desire for vengeance. This book's analysis of these characters and their circumstances offers incisive critical perceptions of feminine anger, ethics, and agency and challenges our assumptions about the role of gender in revenge. In this provocative book, Marguerite A. Tassi counters longstanding critical opinions on revenge: that it is the sole province of men in Western literature and culture, that it is a barbaric, morally depraved, irrational instinct, and that it is antithetical to justice. Countless examples have been mined from Shakespeare's dramas to reveal women's profound concerns with revenge and justice, honor and shame, crime and punishment. In placing the critical focus on avenging women, this book significantly redresses a gender imbalance in scholarly treatments of revenge, particularly in early modern literature.

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107046306

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Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by Fiona Ritchie Pdf

This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

Author : Tina Packer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307745347

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Women of Will by Tina Packer Pdf

Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more interesting, beginning with Joan of Arc. Then, with the extraordinary Juliet, there is a dramatic shift: suddenly Shakespeare’s women have depth, motivation, and understanding of life more than equal to that of the men. As Shakespeare ceases to write women as predictable caricatures and starts writing them from the inside, his women become as dimensional, spirited, spiritual, active, and sexual as any of his male characters. Wondering if Shakespeare had fallen in love (Packer considers with whom, and what she may have been like), the author observes that from Juliet on, Shakespeare’s characters demonstrate that when women and men are equal in status and passion, they can—and do—change the world.

Author : Márta Minier,Maria Elisa Montironi,Cristina Paravano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781040040942

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Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising by Márta Minier,Maria Elisa Montironi,Cristina Paravano Pdf

Local/ Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the local/ global and rhizomatic phenomenon of Shakespeare as advertised and Shakespeare as advertising. Starting from the importance and the awareness of advertising practices in the early modern period, the volume follows the evolution of the use of Shakespeare as a promotional catalyst up to the twenty-first century. The volume considers the pervasiveness of Shakespeare’s marketability in Anglophone and non-Anglophone cultures and its special engagement with creative and commercial industries. With its inter-and transdisciplinary perspective and its international scope, this book brings new insights into Shakespeare’s selling power, Shakespeare as the object of advertising and Shakespeare as part of the advertising vehicle, in relation to a range of crucial cultural, ideological and political issues.

Author : Cristina León Alfar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134773459

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Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays by Cristina León Alfar Pdf

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female sexuality that recur in the form of a slander narrative throughout William Shakespeare’s work. She argues that the plays stage a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. While men’s accusations are built on a foundation of political, religious, legal, and domestic discourses about men’s superiority to, and rule over, women, whose weaker natures render them perpetually suspect, women’s bonds with other women animate defenses of virtue and obedience, fidelity and love, work loose the fabric of patrilineal power that undergirds masculine privileges in marriage, and signify a discursive shift that constitutes the site of agency within a system of oppression that ought to prohibit such agency. That women’s agency in the early modern period must be tied to the formations of power that officially demand their subjection need not undermine their acts. In what Alfar calls Shakespeare’s cuckoldry plays, women’s rhetoric of defense is both subject to the discourse of sexual honor and finds a ground on which to “shift it” as women take control of and replace sexual slander with their own narratives of marital betrayal.

Author : Sophie Duncan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192508225

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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle by Sophie Duncan Pdf

Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle performances of Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian drama for the first time, this book illuminates the vital ways in which fin-de-siècle Shakespeare and contemporary Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other. Actresses' movements between Shakespeare and fin-de-siècle roles reveal the collisions and unexpected consonances between apparently independent areas of the fin-de-siècle repertory. Performances including Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth, Madge Kendal's Rosalind, and Lillie Langtry's Cleopatra illuminate fin-de-siècle Shakespeare's lively intersections with cultural phenomena including the 'Jack the Ripper' killings, Aestheticism, the suicide craze, and the rise of metropolitan department stores. If, as previous studies have shown, Shakespeare was everywhere in Victorian culture, Sophie Duncan explores the surprising ways in which late-Victorian culture, from Dracula to pornography, and from Ruskin to the suffragettes, inflected Shakespeare. Via a wealth of unpublished archival material, Duncan reveals women's creative networks at the fin de siècle, and how Shakespearean performance traditions moved between actresses via little-studied performance genealogies. At the same time, controversial new stage business made fin-de-siècle Shakespeare as much a crucible for debates over gender roles and sexuality as plays by Ibsen and Shaw. Increasingly, actresses' creative networks encompassed suffragist activists, who took personal inspiration from star Shakespearean actresses. From a Salome-esque Juliet to a feminist Paulina, fin-de-siècle actresses created cultural legacies which Shakespeare-in-performance still negotiates today.

Author : Jo Eldridge Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000466164

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Women Talk Back to Shakespeare by Jo Eldridge Carney Pdf

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers—novelists, playwrights, and poets—have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his work. Thus far, feminist scholarship has examined creative responses to Shakespeare by women writers through the late twentieth century. This book brings together the "then" of Shakespeare with the "now" of contemporary literature by examining how many of his plays have cultural currency in the present day. Adoption and surrogate childrearing; gender fluidity; global pandemics; imprisonment and criminal justice; the intersection of misogyny and racism—these are all pressing social and political concerns, but they are also issues that are central to Shakespeare’s plays and the early modern period. By approaching material with a fresh interdisciplinary perspective, Women Talk Back to Shakespeare is an excellent tool for both scholars and students concerned with adaptation, women and gender, and intertextuality of Shakespeare’s plays.

Author : Fiona McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521868860

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Poor Women in Shakespeare by Fiona McNeill Pdf

An unusual study of the representation of poor and homeless women in Shakespeare's plays.