Women S Discourse Of Power In Shakespeare S Macbeth

Author : Anwar Elsharkawy
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668350458

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Women's discourse of power in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" by Anwar Elsharkawy Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: M.A, , course: Discourse Analysis, language: English, abstract: Women in "Macbeth" (i.e., Lady Macbeth and the Witches) speak a strange language that is very similar to what women seek today. This language can be described as antilanguage: a language by which women can direct, control, and dominate men. This paper introduces a contradictory statement to the current views in discourse analysis, which indicate that women are powerless, trivial, dominated, and sexual objects (Andersen, 1988, Chaika, 1982; Lakoff, 1975) by showing women as powerful, serious, and dominating as men. In doing so, it focuses on the recent views of discourse, power, and women, taking Shakespeare's "Macbeth" as a field of application by analyzing Lady Macbeth’s turns of talk.

Author : Katharina Herrmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640771257

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Gender Politics in "Macbeth" by Katharina Herrmann Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Shakespeare's Tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, language: English, abstract: Renaissance tragedy does to a large extent deal with common political, religious and social questions of the time. In most cases, authors use tragedy as the place to question and even criticize those issues, and thus use it as a political space. In Jacobean England, society was profoundly hierarchical with the king on top of the state, and the father or husband as head of the family. " W]omen were clearly socially subordinate, and the preponderance of discourse on the gender hierarchy was misogynistic" . Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's late tragedies, written in 1606, and presented at the Globe Theatre later that year. In Shakespeare's plays sex and gender are crucial for defining human identity and political power. In the course of this essay, I will first take a closer look at gender ideology in the English Renaissance and in Renaissance tragedy and see how society justified the social subordination of women, and what kind of behaviour was considered appropriate for women. As Macbeth is a play that hugely builds on gender stereotyping, I will afterwards work out the play's definition of masculinity and femininity in the medieval social context the tragedy is set in, and subsequently analyse the characters of the three witches and king Duncan regarding their hermaphroditism and androgynity, and see whether the blurring of fixed gender roles might be interpreted as an indication that gender politics in Macbeth are unusual for the medieval Scottish context. The main part of this essay will be dedicated to the Macbeths, two strongly individualized characters. I will examine the characters of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth first, take a look at how their ambition leads to their downfall and afterwards discuss whether it i

Author : Maria L. Howell
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780761840749

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Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth by Maria L. Howell Pdf

"Maria Howell's Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is an important and compelling scholarly work which seeks to examine the sixteenth century's greatest concern, echoed by Hamlet himself, "What is a man?" In an attempt to analyze the concept of manhood in Macbeth, Howell explores the contradictions and ambiguities that underlie heroic notions of masculinity dramatized throughout the play. From Lady Macbeth's capacity to control and destroy Macbeth's masculine identity, to Macbeth himself, who corrupts his military prowess to become a ruthless and murderous tyrant, Howell demonstrates that heroic notions of masculinity not only reinforce masculine power and authority, paradoxically, these ideals are also the source of man's disempowerment and destruction. Howell argues that in an attempt to attain a higher principle, the means (violence and destruction) and the ends (justice and peace) become fused and indistinguishable, so that those values that inform man's actions for good no longer provide moral clarity. Howell's poignant and timely analysis of manhood and masculine identity in Shakespeare's Macbeth will no doubt resonate with readers today."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Verena Schörkhuber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638767491

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The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and Cleopatra' by Verena Schörkhuber Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Edinburgh, course: Tragedy, History and Sovereignty in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poetry and Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Building on the assumption that differences between the sexes in tragedy are defined through competing representations of heroism, this paper shall take a closer look at the representation of gender in two premodern tragedies, Shakespeare's Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The aim of this paper shall be to provide a short introduction to (Shakespeare) feminist criticism, which will be supplemented with an overview of various notable instances of the representation of gender in these two works.

Author : Cristina León Alfar
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874137810

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Fantasies of Female Evil by Cristina León Alfar Pdf

Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.

Author : Eva C. Karpinski,Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000956252

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Adaptation and Beyond by Eva C. Karpinski,Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3178108-10

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Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472517395

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Macbeth: A Critical Reader by Anonim Pdf

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Regularly performed and studied, Macbeth is not only one of Shakespeare's most popular plays but also provides us with one of the literary canon's most compellingly conflicted tragic figures. This guide offers fresh new ways into the play.

Author : Maria Lucy Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009444308

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Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth by Maria Lucy Howell Pdf

Author : Peter Trower
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317932505

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Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training (Psychology Revivals) by Peter Trower Pdf

Originally published in 1984, one of the few facts that emerged clearly in the beleaguered field of psychology and mental health at the time was the extent of poor social skills in psychiatric patients, the mentally handicapped and problem adolescents. As a result, during the 1970s, social skills training – espoused as a form of behaviour therapy – seemed to offer great promise, based on the notion that social skills, like any other skills, are learnt and can be taught if lacking. However, in evaluating social skills training, many investigators found that skills did not endure and generalise. This book attempts a major re-assessment of social skills training. It examines the underlying paradigms, which are shown to be fundamentally behaviourist. Such paradigms, it is argued, severely constrain the aims and method of current types of training. Thus the book develops what is termed an ‘agency’ approach, based on man as a social agent who actively constructs his own experiences and generates his own goal-directed behaviour on the basis of those constructs. This new model is developed in both theoretical and practical ways in the main body of the book and should, even today, be of great interest to all those involved with social skills training.

Author : Erica Hateley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415888882

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Shakespeare in Children's Literature by Erica Hateley Pdf

Shakespeare in Children's Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children's novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on feminist theory and sociology, Hateley demonstrates how Shakespeare for children utilizes the ongoing cultural capital of "Shakespeare," and the pedagogical aspects of children's literature, to perpetuate anachronistic forms of identity and authority.

Author : Courtni Crump Wright
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Habib Tekin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656756736

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Power Relations in Shakespeare's Macbeth by Habib Tekin Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: -, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: The following term paper is based on the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and examines the power relations in this masterpiece of work. The tragic flaw of the characters, in particular Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's will be analysed, whether the belief in prophecies is, in deed, the cause for their fall or if there are any other argumentations that must be taken under consideration. Therefore, both protagonists, who are also husband and wife, will show us their own perspectives of their tragic flaw. This leads us to the fact that the main part of this term paper is divided into two parts that will demonstrate the different ways, - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth - of how to read the text in the end. Starting, in general, with power relations in the Elizabethan England, here, it is important to know that the main focus is upon female characters, because considering the most powerful personality in the country as being queen, Queen Elizabeth I.. Thus, one may see that power is not given only to men, but to women, as well. Afterwards, the main part with the Power of Doubleness proceeds. In the tragedy of Macbeth there are a lot characteristics of doubleness, which goes through the text; for example, the duplicitous nature of the characters, world of wishes versus world of conscience, sorrow and guilt versus despair, death scenes etc. Therefore, this strategy is also behold in this term paper and that is why we have got a separation of, firstly, Lady Macbeth with subheadings like Female Power, Mortal versus Magical Thoughts, Bloody Instructions and Lady Macbeth's Madness, and, secondly, Macbeth with its subheadings such as Role of the Witches, Fatal Vision, Banquo's Ghost, Fear and Ambition Ending in Madness. The term paper ends with a brief résumé that collects all the results.

Author : Maria L. Howell
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0761841989

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Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth by Maria L. Howell Pdf

Maria Howell's, Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, is an important and compelling scholarly work which seeks to examine the sixteenth century's greatest concern, echoed by Hamlet himself, "What is a man?" In an attempt to analyze the concept of manhood in Macbeth, Howell explores the contradictions and ambiguities that underlie heroic notions of masculinity dramatized throughout the play. From Lady Macbeth's capacity to control and destroy Macbeth's masculine identity, to Macbeth himself, who corrupts his military prowess to become a ruthless and murderous tyrant, Howell demonstrates that heroic notions of masculinity not only reinforce masculine power and authority, paradoxically, these ideals are also the source of man's disempowerment and destruction. Howell argues that in an attempt to attain a higher principle, the means (violence and destruction) and the ends (justice and peace) become fused and indistinguishable, so that those values that inform man's actions for good no longer provide moral clarity. Howell's poignant and timely analysis of manhood and masculine identity in Shakespeare's Macbeth will no doubt resonate with readers today.

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782806273345

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of Macbeth with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a world famous tragedy and a gripping story of murder and fate, in which a man’s thirst for power leads to his downfall. Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the English language and his timeless classics continue to be performed and loved around the world. With all the strength of the Bard’s words, this brilliant tragedy unfolds fatalistically until its terrible ending. Find out everything you need to know about Macbeth in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!