Women In Power In The Early Modern Drama
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Women In Power In The Early Modern Drama
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Author : Theodora A. Jankowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1992
Women In Power In The Early Modern Drama written by Theodora A. Jankowski and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Drama categories.
Approximate Bodies
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Author : Maurizio Calbi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-05-02
Approximate Bodies written by Maurizio Calbi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the imagination not only of scientists but also of playwrights and poets. Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and gynaecological treatises. Maurizio Calbi focuses on the unstable representation of both masculinity and femininity in Renaissance texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling and a variety of Shakespeare plays. Drawing on theorists including Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, these close textual readings examine the effects of social, psychic and cultural influences on early modern images of the body. Calbi identifies the ways in which political, social, racial and sexual power structures effect the construction of the body in dramatic and anatomical texts. Calbi's analysis displays how images such as the deformed body of the outsider, the effeminate body of the desiring male and the disfigured body parts of the desiring female indicate an unstable, incomplete conception of the body in the Renaissance. Compelling and impeccably researched, this is a sophisticated account of the fantasies and anxieties that play a role in constructing the early modern body. Approximate Bodies makes a major contribution to the field of early modern studies and to debates around the body.
Images Of The Muslim Woman In Early Modern English Drama
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Author : Öz Öktem
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2021-01-29
Images Of The Muslim Woman In Early Modern English Drama written by Öz Öktem and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate East cannot be sustained within the context of the political and historical realities of early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire remained as a dominant superpower throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was perceived by Protestant England both as a military and religious threat and as a possible ally against Catholic Spain. Reading a series of early modern plays from Marlowe to Beaumont and Fletcher alongside a number of historical sources and documents, this book re-interprets the image of Islamic femininity in the period’s drama to reflect this overturn in the world’s power balances, as well as the intricate dynamics of England’s intensified contact with Islam in the Mediterranean.
Justice Women And Power In English Renaissance Drama
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Author : Andrew J. Majeske
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2009
Justice Women And Power In English Renaissance Drama written by Andrew J. Majeske and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Justice, Women, and Power in English Reniassance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and overarching political) systems in early modern England. Other essays examine issues involving the role of narrative, evidence, and gendered expectations about justice in the plays of this time period. An implicit concern of these essays is whether women were empowered or dis-empowered in this interaction with the legal/political system.
Gender And Power In Shrew Taming Narratives 1500 1700
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Author : D. Wootton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Gender And Power In Shrew Taming Narratives 1500 1700 written by D. Wootton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Social Science categories.
Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.
Women In Modern Drama
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Author : Gail Finney
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Women In Modern Drama written by Gail Finney and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Drama categories.
An abundance of rich and memorable female roles is one of the most striking features of turn-of-the-century European drama. Gail Finney traces the source of this phenomenon to large-scale upheavals in prevailing contemporary attitudes toward women. She cites two major developments in particular: the culmination in the years 1880–1920 of the first feminist movement; and Freud's formulation of his theories of sexuality, which emphasize differences between the sexes. Taking into account these strong, sometimes conflicting intellectual currents, Women in Modern Drama explores the dynamics of gender identity and family relationships in major plays by European make dramatists, including Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Wilde, Schnitzler, Synge, Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, and Hauptmann.
Debating Women Politics And Power In Early Modern Europe
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Author : S. Jansen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-04-14
Debating Women Politics And Power In Early Modern Europe written by S. Jansen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-14 with History categories.
The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled - and ruled effectively - their right to do so was hotly contested. Men s voices have long dominated this debate, but the recovery of texts by women now allows their voices, long silenced, to be heard once again. Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe is a study of texts and textual production in the construction of gender, society, and politics in the early modern period. Jansen explores the "gynecocracy" debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty.
Gender Power And Privilege In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Penny Richards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-30
Gender Power And Privilege In Early Modern Europe written by Penny Richards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with History categories.
Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.
Women And Curiosity In Early Modern England And France
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Author : Line Cottegnies
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Women And Curiosity In Early Modern England And France written by Line Cottegnies and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Women and Curiosity in Early Modern England and France, the rehabilitation of female curiosity between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries is thoroughly investigated for the first time, in a comparative perspective that confronts two epistemological and religious traditions.
Women On The Edge In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Women On The Edge In Early Modern Europe written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Beatrix, Ungarn, Königin categories.
This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.