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Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of
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 »
ISBN-13: 9780745010076
ISBN-10: 0745010075
Publication Date: 10/1/1991
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Book Type: Paperback
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