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Feminist Criticism

Author : Sara Ekici
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640461525
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Criticism written by Sara Ekici and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (Fachbereich für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Schakespeare, language: English, abstract: Female characters play an important role for the dramatic run of events in Shakespeare's plays. Just as in reality, women of Shakespeare's dramas have been bound to rules and conventions of the patriarchal Elizabethan era. Therefore, it was very common back in Elizabethan England to compel woman into marriages in order to receive power, legacy, dowry or land in exchange. Even though the Queen herself was an unmarried woman, the roles of woman in society were extremely restricted. Single women have been the property of their fathers and handed over to their future husbands through marriage. In Elizabethan time, women were considered as the weaker sex and dangerous, because their sexuality was supposedly mystic and therefore feared by men. Women of that era were supposed to represent virtues like obedience, silence, sexual chastity, piety, humility, constancy, and patience. All these virtues, of course, have their meaning in relationship to men. The role allocation in Elizabethan society was strictly regulated; men were the breadwinners and woman had to be obedient housewives and mothers. However, within this deprived, tight and organized scope, women have been represented in most diverse ways in Shakespearean Drama. The construction of female characters in Shakespeare's plays reflects the Elizabethan image of woman in general. For all that, Shakespeare supports the English Renaissance stereotypes of genders, their roles and responsibilities in society, he also puts their representations into question, challenges, and also revises them.

Feminist Criticism: Female Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays Othello and Hamlet

Author : Sara Ekici
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640464354
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Criticism: Female Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays Othello and Hamlet written by Sara Ekici and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Kassel (Fachbereich für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Schakespeare, language: English, abstract: Female characters play an important role for the dramatic run of events in Shakespeare’s plays. Just as in reality, women of Shakespeare’s dramas have been bound to rules and conventions of the patriarchal Elizabethan era. Therefore, it was very common back in Elizabethan England to compel woman into marriages in order to receive power, legacy, dowry or land in exchange. Even though the Queen herself was an unmarried woman, the roles of woman in society were extremely restricted. Single women have been the property of their fathers and handed over to their future husbands through marriage. In Elizabethan time, women were considered as the weaker sex and dangerous, because their sexuality was supposedly mystic and therefore feared by men. Women of that era were supposed to represent virtues like obedience, silence, sexual chastity, piety, humility, constancy, and patience. All these virtues, of course, have their meaning in relationship to men. The role allocation in Elizabethan society was strictly regulated; men were the breadwinners and woman had to be obedient housewives and mothers. However, within this deprived, tight and organized scope, women have been represented in most diverse ways in Shakespearean Drama. The construction of female characters in Shakespeare’s plays reflects the Elizabethan image of woman in general. For all that, Shakespeare supports the English Renaissance stereotypes of genders, their roles and responsibilities in society, he also puts their representations into question, challenges, and also revises them.

"Tragic Patriarchy": The Misogynist Side of Shakespeare in 'Hamlet' and 'Othello'

Author : Kathrin Köhler
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 383248423X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book "Tragic Patriarchy": The Misogynist Side of Shakespeare in 'Hamlet' and 'Othello' written by Kathrin Köhler and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2004-11-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Was Shakespeare a misogynist ? Or was he, on the contrary, an early advocate of female equality ? Were his plays manifests of patriarchy, of the dominance of men over women and of typical stereotypes ? Or were they, like other critics have argued, just the opposite? Was he a "feminist in sympathy", as Juliet Dusinberre has argued, or was he the patriarchal bard many others see in him ? In how far were his views about the sexes influenced by the conceptions of gender in the Elizabethan time - and did he support, question or even reject them ? These were the questions I had in mind when I started working on this thesis paper. After dealing with both Shakespeare and feminism in the course of my studies, an evaluation of Shakespeare's attitude towards women seemed very interesting. The attraction that Shakespeare combined with feminism has, and the necessity of such criticism, has often been discussed. The following quote is rather long, but perfectly expresses my own interest in the topic. "Feminist critics of Shakespeare must use the strategies and insights of this new criticism selectively, for they examine a male dramatist of extraordinary range writing in a remote period when women's position was in obvious ways more restricted and less disputed than our own. Acknowledging this, feminist critics also recognize that the greatest artists do not necessarily duplicate in their art the orthodoxies of their culture; they may exploit them to create character or intensify conflict; they may struggle with, criticise or transcend them. Shakespeare, it would seem, encompasses more and preaches less than most authors; hence the centuries-old controversy over his religious affiliation, political views, and sexual preferences. His attitudes towards women are equally complex and demand attention." The fact that all major female characters have to die in Hamlet as well as in Othello is what first brought me to assess these two plays. I believe that even without an in-depth analysis of the plays the excessive murdering of women shows that Shakespeare's attitude towards them is in some way troubled. I was worried that this would be too trivial a starting point, but other critics have had the same idea: "And, as has been noted, the women in the tragedies almost invariably are destroyed, or are absent from the new order consolidated at the conclusions." The more I dealt with this vast topic, however, the more complicated it became. The [...]

The Woman's Part

Author : Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252010163
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Woman's Part written by Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Female Characters in "Macbeth", "Othello" and "Hamlet"

Author : Timm Gehrmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638595153
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Female Characters in "Macbeth", "Othello" and "Hamlet" written by Timm Gehrmann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Shakespeare's Late Tragedies, language: English, abstract: Why should one choose to examine the female characters of three of the most prominent Shakespeare plays although men are the protagonists in all of them ? Maybe because one may find certain parallels in the construction of woman characters in these Shakespeare plays which reflect the Elizabethan image of women in general. Maybe because Desdemona, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth are rather tragic figures with a developed character. All main female characters seem to have the same tragic element attached to them – namely their early unnatural death. Potter sees this early death as an erotic quality which seems to be inherent in all of Shakespeare’s female characters1. All women seem to have loaded guilt upon them prior to their death. Lady Macbeth is guilty of at least helping in carrying out a murder. Gertrude is guilty of remarrying so quickly after her husband’s death. But finding guilt in Desdemona and Ophelia seems rather hard to manage. Desdemona is found guilty by her husband but the audience knows she is not, while Ophelia may be found guilty by the reader to have betrayed Hamlet by not requiting his love. Apart from guilt obedience seems to play a major role in the context of the female characters. Othello wants his wife to be obedient and fears she is not – independent of whether he is present or not – but when he is present he uses force to make her obedient. Ophelia is also very obedient to her brother and her father, which constitutes the falsehood of her character and may thus play a major role in Hamlet’s development. Gertrude is obedient to her husband the way a wife is supposed to be obedient. She does not have to be reminded and just blindly follows her husband in her words and deeds until the end of the play. Lady Macbeth may be an eception, but in the light of the reversal of order in Macbeth we may state that Macbeth is the obedient figure when he follows his wife’s command. When we consider Macbeth to be a photonegative of the world we can find the obedience motive again. One may argue that when a lack of obedience persists “chaos is come again” which is exactly the consequence of all acts of disobedience of women in the three plays. The three witches who are not obedient to anyone, Lady Macbeth and the consequences of Desdemona’s felt disobedience may serve as an example for the consequences of female disobedience.

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991)

Author : Philip C Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351984039
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) written by Philip C Kolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 — a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work. While the primary focus is on feminist studies of Shakespeare, it also includes wide-ranging works on language, desire, role-playing, theatre conventions, marriage, and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture — shedding light on Shakespeare’s views on and representation of women, sex and gender. Accompanying the 439 entries are extensive, informative annotations that strive to maintain the original author’s perspective, supplying a careful and thorough account of the main points of an article.

Shakespeare’s female characters in "Hamlet" and "As you like it". Raised above society’s conceptions of the female gender

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Author : Elena Agathokleous
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346395537
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s female characters in "Hamlet" and "As you like it". Raised above society’s conceptions of the female gender written by Elena Agathokleous and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The essay deals with Shakespeare’s female characters in “Hamlet” and “As you like it”, raised above society’s conceptions of the female gender. Shakespeare’s writings are highly observant and contain social and historical representations as well as observations about the human condition. His characters show depth and their personalities undergo changes and reach resolutions according to both societal norms of the time but also to the genre of the play. Gender relations were a significant aspect of his writing especially regarding to the time when Shakespeare was writing when women were the property, first of their father and then of their husband according to the law. Their marriages were business transactions with the woman being exchanged for a higher position in society by entering a family of high social status or even to secure survival if the woman’s family was poor. For the transaction to be successful the woman had to be a virgin, of proven chastity, otherwise she was considered to be unwanted for marriage. This related highly to matters of succession since it was the only that the fatherhood of the husband was certain. In this society, where men dominated every aspect of life women were not permitted to reveal their true self and potential instead they were constantly oppressed and obliged to obey men.

A feminist critique of the character Desdemona in Shakespeares "Othello"

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Author : Rubina Mandokhail
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668047294
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book A feminist critique of the character Desdemona in Shakespeares "Othello" written by Rubina Mandokhail and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This eassy offers an feminist analysis of the literary character of Desdemona from William Shakespeare's "Othello."

Active Agents Or Passive Instruments? Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Othello

Author : Wiebke Pietzonka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783656480563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Active Agents Or Passive Instruments? Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Othello written by Wiebke Pietzonka and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), course: Shakespeare`s Tragedies, language: English, abstract: "And have not we affections? / Desires for sport? and frailty, as men have? / Then let them use us well: else let them know, / The ills we do, their ills instruct us so." (Shakespeare 4.3.100-103) This emancipated statement by Emilia in William Shakespeare`s tragedy "Othello" already could lead to assume that there is far more to the female characters in the play than just the role of the loving wife or the accessory part for the male ones. However, it is mostly Iago and his schemes or Othello and his tragic fate that are in the centre of the reader`s attention rather than the characters of Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca. Iago being unique for the Shakespearean villain and Othello as the personification for the tragedy of jealousy are, to a certain extent, pushing back the female figures to a background position in the people`s general perception of "Othello". After all, the women in the play are `worth a second glance`, since only a closer reading can really reveal the whole importance and the subtle power of women in the play, albeit in the background of it. The aim of this paper is to show the function of the female figures in "Othello" and, in this context, to prove their importance for the tragedy`s development. Therefore, I will first analyze the characters of Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca as a basis for a closer look at their function in the plot of "Othello" afterwards. In this context, it is important to say that I will not focus on every facet of the characters but only on the aspects that are significant ones for each and for the further examination. Concerning Desdemona`s, Emilia`s and Bianca`s function in the play, I will investigate in which ways they contribute to the development of the plot. Are they active or passiv

Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900

Author : Ann Thompson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047046
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900 written by Ann Thompson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Women

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Women written by William Shakespeare and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serves both as a script for performance and as a text for high school and college theater and English classes. This self-contained script brings together different scenes from Shakespeare's plays to portray women "in all their infinite variety." Two narrators, a man and a woman, introduce and comment on these scenes, weaving together the different characters and situations. This book combines literary and theatrical techniques in examining Shakespeare's women. Its promptbook format provides clear, helpful stage directions on pages facing each of the scenes. Also helpful are concise glosses and footnotes to define difficult words and phrases plus a commentary to explain each scene in its dramatic context. Other features include sheet music for each song in the play, a bibliography on the topic of women in Shakespeare's plays, and suggestions for directors who wish to stage the play.

A Feminist Critique of the Character Desdemona in Shakespeares "Othello"

Author : Rubina Mandokhail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668047303
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Critique of the Character Desdemona in Shakespeares "Othello" written by Rubina Mandokhail and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: This eassy offers an feminist analysis of the literary character of Desdemona from William Shakespeare's "Othello."

Shakespeare and Feminist Theory

Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472567080
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Feminist Theory written by Marianne Novy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of desire, what marriage means and how much women can remake it, how women can use and expand their culture's ideas of motherhood and of women's work, and how women can have power through language. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare.

The Matter of Difference

Author : Valerie Wayne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499654
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Difference written by Valerie Wayne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively volume investigates Shakespeare's plays in terms of the relations between material conditions of Renaissance culture and differences of gender, class, race, and erotic practice.

The Women of Shakespeare's Plays

Author : Courtni Crump Wright
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819188267
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book The Women of Shakespeare's Plays written by Courtni Crump Wright and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women's Re-visions of Shakespeare

Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061141
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Women's Re-visions of Shakespeare written by Marianne Novy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118501268
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare written by Dympna Callaghan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day