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The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Natascha Haas
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638293246
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The (Mis?)-Representation of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies written by Natascha Haas and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-07-18 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5 (A), University of Heidelberg (Anglistics), course: Proseminar II: 'Comedies in Shakespeare's Time', language: English, abstract: Compared to other writers of his time, Shakespeare introduced an extraordinary amount of deep female characters in his plays. Because Shakespeare lived in a time when men played the major part in society and the role of women was basically limited to the household, one could easily come to the opinion that he was a reformer whose views were ahead of the Elizabethan times 1 . But is this really true? Does Shakespeare criticize the society he lives in by creating these characters, or do they just serve their purpose to make the plays more dramatic? In this paper, I will first give an overview of the role of women in the Elizabethan age and society. After that I will analyse the female characters of three plays we discussed in the course in order to find out if Shakespeare’s views on women diverged from the general view of his time.

The Positive Portrayal of Women in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Keely Ariana Ellis 1980
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Happy Endings in Shakespeare’s Comedies from a Feminist Point of View

Author : Leanne Harper
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656296464
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Book Synopsis Happy Endings in Shakespeare’s Comedies from a Feminist Point of View by : Leanne Harper

Download or read book Happy Endings in Shakespeare’s Comedies from a Feminist Point of View written by Leanne Harper and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B, King`s College London, language: English, abstract: This essay explores the controversial endings of the following plays: The Taming of the Shrew A midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice. Paying particular attention to the language in the last scenes and Shakespeare's enigmatic representation of the female characters with regards to gender roles.

Young Women in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Theo Tebbe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 364017271X
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Young Women in Shakespeare's Comedies written by Theo Tebbe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabr ck, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Compared to other writers of his time, Shakespeare introduces an unusual amount of deep female characters in his comedies. His representation of women, in particular the ways in which his female roles are interpreted and put on stage, have become topics of scientific interest. Especially the young women often show vitality, great intelligence, and a strong sense of personal independence, which marks them as "queen s] of comedy" (Palmer 72). Therefore, they are often referred to as Shakespeare's heroines. In the following, I want to show their importance and point out that each heroine, although they all share character traits, has distinct and unique qualities. In doing so, I will occasionally refer to a secondary literature and involve positions of different critics. Though, my attention will be focussed on the plays treated in this research paper: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. On the basis of these romantic comedies, I will analyse how the young women are presented and subsequently compare them among one another. In the first part I will look at each heroine individually and introduce their plays. Then I will develop possible similarities between them: Beautiful but unworldly Miranda seems to be totally controlled by her father Prospero, but she shows a strong will in planning a shared future with Ferdinand and she is aware of her superiority to the savage Caliban. Hermia's father similarly chooses her husband. With magic help, however, she and Helena manage to come together with the right partner. Moreover, Helena reveals that she believes in the transformative power of love (MND I.2, 233-4). Viola in Twelfth Night is in a way almost the opposite of Rosalind in As You Like It, although both plays

Young women in Shakespeare’s comedies

Author : Theo Tebbe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640170733
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Young women in Shakespeare’s comedies by : Theo Tebbe

Download or read book Young women in Shakespeare’s comedies written by Theo Tebbe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück, language: English, abstract: Compared to other writers of his time, Shakespeare introduces an unusual amount of deep female characters in his comedies. His representation of women, in particular the ways in which his female roles are interpreted and put on stage, have become topics of scientific interest. Especially the young women often show vitality, great intelligence, and a strong sense of personal independence, which marks them as “queen[s] of comedy” (Palmer 72). Therefore, they are often referred to as Shakespeare’s heroines. In the following, I want to show their importance and point out that each heroine, although they all share character traits, has distinct and unique qualities. In doing so, I will occasionally refer to a secondary literature and involve positions of different critics. Though, my attention will be focussed on the plays treated in this research paper: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. On the basis of these romantic comedies, I will analyse how the young women are presented and subsequently compare them among one another. In the first part I will look at each heroine individually and introduce their plays. Then I will develop possible similarities between them: Beautiful but unworldly Miranda seems to be totally controlled by her father Prospero, but she shows a strong will in planning a shared future with Ferdinand and she is aware of her superiority to the savage Caliban. Hermia’s father similarly chooses her husband. With magic help, however, she and Helena manage to come together with the right partner. Moreover, Helena reveals that she believes in the transformative power of love (MND I.2, 233-4). Viola in Twelfth Night is in a way almost the opposite of Rosalind in As You Like It, although both plays deal with a cross-dressed heroine. Whereas Rosalind can tease Orlando, always knowing that he is in love with her and being moreover able to reveal herself to him whenever she wants, Viola feels trapped in her disguise and has to work for the man she is in love with and even woo another woman on his behalf. Beatrice may not disguise herself in order to show her power like Rosalind, but she is nevertheless a strong female character: she marries only after asserting her dislike for the traditionally minor role of women in marriage and courtship in that time.[...]

Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Author : Dusica Marinkovic-Penney
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640177460
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Analysis of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Dusica Marinkovic-Penney and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), course: Hauptseminar: The History of British Comedy, language: English, abstract: This paper will examine the four female characters of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is one of the early comedies of the playwright. Here we encounter four main female characters who come from three different backgrounds. While Hippolyta is about to be married to Theseus, one can say that she represents the leadership in the mortal world. Titania is another leading character who is the queen of the fairy land. Hermia and Helena represent young women who are trying to find the right partner for themselves. As in many Shakespeare’s comedies, the married couples are confronted with a certain problem that seems to endanger their marriage, while the unmarried people make choices that are not accepted or a confusing love constellation exists, for instance the “love chain” that can be found in this play, where Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander. The play can be divided into three parts: at the beginning we face a world of Athens, where life is organized by law; the middle part of the play takes place in the magical wood where the fairies control the irrational events and cause a lot of discord, and finally a return to the ‘normal’ world occurs where all the mismatched couples can resolve their troubles and a triple wedding takes place which is the ultimate happy end for a comedy of Shakespeare’s times. All four female characters will be analyzed in all three stages of the play: before the magic intervention of the fairy king, during the confusion caused by him and after the initial conditions are restored. Hippolyta remains the only character who is not manipulated by the love potion. The female characters will be analyzed according to their behavior, their image of themselves and the relationship to the men. Each character will be introduced and analyzed in a separate chapter. The goal is to find parallels and contrasts between these characters which will be presented in the conclusion of this paper.

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

Author : Melissa Emerson Walter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503644
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines by : Melissa Emerson Walter

Download or read book The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines written by Melissa Emerson Walter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.

Shakespeare Without Women

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134633122
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Without Women written by Dympna Callaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Magdalena Cieslak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498563759
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies by : Magdalena Cieslak

Download or read book Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies written by Magdalena Cieslak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When adapting Shakespeare's comedies, cinema and television have to address the differences and incompatibilities between early modern gender constructs and contemporary cultural, social, and political contexts. Screening Gender in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century analyzes methods employed by cinema and television in approaching those aspects of Shakespeare's comedies, indicating a range of ways in which adaptations made in the twenty-first century approach the problems of cultural and social normativity, gender politics, stereotypes of femininity and masculinity, the dynamic of power relations between men and women, and social roles of men and women. This book discusses both mainstream cinematic productions, such as Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice or Julie Taymor's The Tempest, and more low-key adaptations, such as Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the three comedies of BBC ShakespeaRe-Told miniseries: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book examines how the analyzed films deal with elements of Shakespeare's comedies that appear subversive, challenging, or offensive to today's culture, and how they interpret or update gender issues to reconcile Shakespeare with contemporary cultural norms. By exploring tensions and negotiations between early modern and present-day gender politics, the book defines the prevailing attitudes of recent adaptations in relation to those issues, and identifies the most popular strategies of accommodating early modern constructs for contemporary audiences.

The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines

Author : Melissa Walter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487518439
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines written by Melissa Walter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare’s comedies adapted the styles of wit, character types, motifs, plots, and other narrative elements of the novella tradition for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and they investigated social norms and roles through a conversation carried out in narrative and drama. Arguing that Shakespeare’s comedies register the playwright’s reading of the novella tradition within the collaborative playmaking context of the early modern theatre, this book demonstrates how the comic vision of these plays increasingly valued women’s authority and consent in the comic conclusion. The representation of female characters in novella collections is complex and paradoxical, as the stories portray women not only in the roles of witty plotters and storytellers but also through a multifaceted poetics of enclosed spaces – including trunks, chests, caskets, graves, cups, and beds. The relatively open-ended rhetorical situation of early modern English theatre and the dialogic form and narrative material available in the novella tradition combine to help create the complex female characters in Shakespeare’s plays and a new form of English comedy.

Women of Will

Author : Tina Packer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745341
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Women of Will written by Tina Packer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Transgression of Gender in Shakespeare's Comedy 'Twelfth Night'

Author : Annika Bolten
Publisher : Grin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783656302841
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transgression of Gender in Shakespeare's Comedy 'Twelfth Night' by : Annika Bolten

Download or read book The Transgression of Gender in Shakespeare's Comedy 'Twelfth Night' written by Annika Bolten and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Women mistaken for men, men mistaken for women, disguised as men - this play with identity and gender does not seem to be a new topic for the theatre audience of the 21. century. But in Elizabethan England, where identity and the question of class were very important for society, these confusing relationships shown on stage must have been puzzling. Although confusions over identity are nothing new in comedy since classical times, it is Shakespeare who mainly focused on the issue of gender in his comedies. In 'Twelfth Night' he plays with the cultural constructions of his time, for example the question of gender and erotic attraction, even between partners of the same sex.

Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing

Author : Courtney Bailey Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000735583
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing written by Courtney Bailey Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing. This book argues for a reading of the representation of female characters on the English Renaissance stage that not only suggests categorizing crossdressing along a spectrum of theatrical artifice, but also explores how this range of artifice enriches our understanding of the plays. The scholarship surrounding cross-dressing rarely makes this distinction, since in our study of early modern plays we tend to accept as a matter of course that all crossdressing was essentially the same. The basis of Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing is that it was not.

Enter The Body

Author : Carol Chillington Rutter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767803
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Enter The Body written by Carol Chillington Rutter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them.

The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies

Author : Marilyn L. Williamson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318072
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies by : Marilyn L. Williamson

Download or read book The Patriarchy of Shakespeare's Comedies written by Marilyn L. Williamson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Loving

Author : Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133981
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Loving written by Evelyn Gajowski and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The independence of their self-evaluation from conflicting male desire and repugnance for them accounts for their "infinite variety." The uniqueness of Shakespeare's representation of heterosexual relations is his creation of female protagonists who are relational, yet independent, human beings. The empowered female protagonists of Shakespeare's comedies are rightly celebrated by "compensatory" feminist critics; the disempowered--even victimized--female protagonists of his tragedies are rightly noted by "justificatory" feminist critics. To view the marriages of the comic females as nothing more than submissions to patriarchy, Professor Gajowski contends, is to ignore the crucial significance in Shakespeare's texts of affiliative capacities of both sexes of the human animal.

Shakespeare Without Women

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415202312
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Without Women written by Dympna Callaghan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Without Womenis a controversial study of female impersonation, and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays. In this exhilarating and challenging book, Callaghan focuses on the implications of absence and exclusion in several of Shakespeare's works: *the exclusion of the female body fromTwelfth Night *the impersonation of the female voice in the original performances of the plays *racial impersonation inOthello *echoes of the removal of the Gaelic Irish inTheTempest *the absence of women on stage and in public life as shown inA Midsummer Night's Dream.