In The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster reworked the idea of a female tragic protagonist explored in his earlier and less well-received play, The White Devil. In the play, Webster's character is a widow who decides to remarry, thus dramatizing a situation of social and family conflict, which reveals the problematics of gender hierarchy both in the family and the state. The essays in this volume not only acknowledge but also foreground the questions of gender raised by feminist historiography, and in this they represent an important intervention in a critical tradition which has deflected issues of gender and sexuality.
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Dympna Callaghan is William P. Tolley Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University.
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The untenability of the mad tragic subject in early seventeenth-century English drama suggests a significant rift between interiority and unreason. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Catherine Belsey, Woman Controversy, English Renaissance, Frank Whigham, Susan Wells, Kenneth Burke, Constantia Munda, Francis Barker, John Russell Brown, Knox's First Blast, Lawrence Stone, Lisa Jardine, Clifford Leech, Jacobean England, James Redmond, John Knox, Leonard Tennenhouse, Marie Axton, Michel Foucault, Ralph Berry, Raymond Williams, Static Protagonist, Still Harping, The Subject of Tragedy New!
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New York, Catherine Belsey, Woman Controversy, English Renaissance, Frank Whigham, Susan Wells, Kenneth Burke, Constantia Munda, Francis Barker, John Russell Brown, Knox's First Blast, Lawrence Stone, Lisa Jardine, Clifford Leech, Jacobean England, James Redmond, John Knox, Leonard Tennenhouse, Marie Axton, Michel Foucault, Ralph Berry, Raymond Williams, Static Protagonist, Still Harping, The Subject of Tragedy New!
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- The Duchess of Malfi (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Webster on 42 pages
- The White Devil, Second Edition (New Mermaids) by John Webster on 7 pages
- The First Blast of the Trumpet by John Knox on 5 pages
- Still Harping on Daughters by Lisa Jardine on 4 pages
- Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Jonathan Dollimore on 4 pages
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- Staging the Renaissance by David Scott Kastan in Front Matter
- Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production by Peter Holland on page 75
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