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The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Shakespeare`s Macbeth

Author : Vinzent Fröhlich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638949176
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Shakespeare`s Macbeth written by Vinzent Fröhlich and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), 50 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The title of this paper is "The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Shakespeare s Macbeth". As this title suggests, I analyzed how Shakespeare construes female and male identity in Macbeth. As in many Shakespearean dramas the play starts with the destruction of order leading up to a crisis and ending in the restoration of order at the end of the play (Gelfert 32). The political order that is destroyed in the course of the play is King Duncan s natural and fair order which appreciates a unique set of masculine and feminine values. Macbeth murders King Duncan in order to usurp his throne. Macbeth s reign turns Duncan s order into chaos and moral order cannot return to Scotland until the tyrant ruler Macbeth is defeated by troops who fight for the restoration of Duncan s order, through the coronation of his son Malcolm. This essay deals with the question of how Shakespeare shapes female and male characters. As a matter of fact, female and male characters are ultimately involved in the destruction and restoration of Scotland. This involves questions such as: Which historical concepts does Shakespeare use to construe his male and female characters? Does he construe "typical" gender roles? And what happens when gender boundaries are crossed, when men develop feminine traits and women male ones? With special regard to the marriage of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, I also analyzed the interaction between the genders. In the course of my analysis, I used the term "gender", originating from Anglo-American feminist discourse, meaning "the social, cultural, and psychological meaning imposed upon biological sexual identity" (Showalter 1-2). Interpreting femininity and masculinity as "gender" constructions allows a more thorough an

Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth

Author : Maria L. Howell
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761841982
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth written by Maria L. Howell and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Author : Shirley Nelson Garner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210272
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender written by Shirley Nelson Garner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.

The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'

Author : Verena Schörkhuber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638767493
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Representation of Gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and Cleopatra' written by Verena Schörkhuber and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 37 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: 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.

Titus Andronicus

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lady Macbeth's Daughter

Author : Lisa Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599906236
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Lady Macbeth's Daughter written by Lisa Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by three strange sisters, Albia has never known the secrets of her parentage. But when Macbeth seeks out the weird sisters to foretell his fate, his life is entangled with his unknown daughter's. When Albia foresees the terrible future, she becomes determined to save Macbeth's rival-and the man she loves-from her murderous father. Klein's seamlessly drawn tale makes it seem impossible that Albia was not part of Shakespeare's original play.

Gender Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Macbeth

Author : Barbora Sramkova
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640427009
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Gender Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Macbeth written by Barbora Sramkova and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 1996 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff (Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy), course: Shakespeare's Tragedies, language: English, abstract: Probably the most powerful lines lingering in the reader’s or audience’s memory after experiencing Macbeth are the hero’s words in reaction to the news of the death of his spouse: “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (V, 5, 23-28) When life signifies nothing, does this play signify anything? However simple the question may seem, the answer is hardly straightforward. Trying to stay away from moralising about vaulting ambition that doesn’t pay in the end I would like to speculate about possible significations of the play, not necessarily connected to the plot, or to put it in another way, examine the possibly significant themes and motives recurrent in the play: ambiguity, uncertainty or indeterminacy of meaning. Equivocation is the term used in the play itself (e.g. the porter scene in III, i) and it well captures the theme of walking the tightrope above the abyss of single, definite meaning on one hand, and the endless proliferation of meaning on the other. One cannot escape the impression that the thematically prominent characters of the play (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, the witches, the Porter) virtually evade committing themselves to definite meanings.

Shakespeare on Masculinity

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521662044
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Masculinity written by Robin Headlam Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews Shakespeare's view of masculinity through The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and others.

Comic Women, Tragic Men

Author : Linda Bamber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765693
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Comic Women, Tragic Men written by Linda Bamber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proceeds from the assumption that Shakespeare, so often perceived as the one writer who appears to have transcended the limits of gender, inevitably writes from the perspective of his own gender. From this perspective, whatever represents the Self is necessarily male; and the Other, which challenges the Self, is female. The author's approach gives us a fresh understanding of both Shakespeare's characters and the structure of the plays. The author defines genre in terms of the nature of the challenge offered by the Other to the Self. Using specific plays and characters of Shakespeare, the author shows how in tragedy the Other betrays or appears to betray the Self; in comedy the Other evades the social hierarchies dominated by versions of the male Self; in romance the Other comes and goes, leaving the Self bereft when she is gone and astounding him with happiness when she reappears. History is defined as a genre in which the masculine heroes confront no challenge from the Other but only from each other, from other versions of the Self. The book consists of a long theoretical introduction followed by chapters on comedy, history, and some individual plays: Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

The Construction of Femininity in Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"

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Author : Sofie Sonnenstatter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640539222
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Femininity in Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" written by Sofie Sonnenstatter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus is his most gruesome play. It has been harshly criticized for its exaggerated cruelty and was certainly not among his most popular works. However, the play aroused a somewhat greater interest within the field of gender studies and the feminist approach to literature. The simplified, objectified and polarized depiction of the female characters virtually stares the gender-conscious reader in the face; this is an open invitation for closer inspection. Though the virgin-whore dichotomy was quite common in Elizabethan literature, it is carried to extremes in Titus Andronicus. In the following the construction of femininity and the female characters in the play, Lavinia and Tamora, will be analyzed against the background of the perception of femininity in Shakespeare’s time.

Fantasies of Female Evil

Author : Cristina León Alfar
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137811
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Female Evil written by Cristina León Alfar and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.

The Hegemonic System of Production. How Shakespeare and History Commodify and Confine the Feminine

Author : Lena Dassonville
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668359849
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Hegemonic System of Production. How Shakespeare and History Commodify and Confine the Feminine written by Lena Dassonville and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, , course: Seminar II, language: English, abstract: Luce Irigaray, a French feminist and theorist, postulated a theory in which gender constitutes an economic exchange. Women become commodities within a patriarchal economic system and their identities are thus derived from their value to men. Irigaray claims that the female identity is constructed from its commodification in a patriarchal society. Consequently, women are occluded from participating in cultural and socio-economic systems as the feminine can only be represented in relation to men. This theory of gender as commodity and the various social roles of the female object can be used to analyze to Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Aurora Levins Morales’ Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas.

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:

Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare

Author : Kelsey Ridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000425363
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare by : Kelsey Ridge

Download or read book Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare written by Kelsey Ridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare’s Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Coriolanus, vital to understanding the plays themselves. By analysing the characters as military spouses, we can better understand current dynamics in modern American civilian and military culture as modern American military spouses live through the War on Terror. Shakespeare's Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare explains what these plays have to say about the role of military families and cultural constructions of masculinity both in the texts themselves and in modern America. Concerns relevant to today’s military families – domestic violence, PTSD, infertility, the treatment of queer servicemembers, war crimes, and the growing civil-military divide – pervade Shakespeare’s works. These parallels to the contemporary lived experience are brought out through reference to memoirs written by modern-day military spouses, sociological studies of the American armed forces, and reports issued by the Department of Defence. Shakespeare’s military spouses create a discourse that recognizes the role of the military in national defence but criticizes risky or damaging behaviours and norms, promoting the idea of a martial identity that permits military defence without the dangers of toxic masculinity. Meeting at the intersection of Shakespeare Studies, trauma studies, and military studies, this focus on military spouses is a unique and unprecedented resource for academics in these fields, as well as for groups interested in Shakespeare and theatre as a way of thinking through and responding to psychiatric issues and traumatic experiences.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160413884X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare's Macbeth written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of literary criticism focusing on Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346463
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time written by Eavan Boland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-07-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868012
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.