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Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of "King Lear", "Othello", "The Duchess of Malfi" and "The White Devil"
Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy A Study of King Lear Othello The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil Author:Dympna Callaghan Drawing on recent developments in critical and psychoanalytic theory, this feminist study offers a radical reading of gender in Renaissance tragedy by looking at constructions of the category "woman" through language, ideology and subjectivity, thereby challenging the notion that key heroines of 16th- and 17th-century drama can be seen as repres... more »entations of Renaissance womankind.« less