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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Other titles in the New Casebooks series:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster (New Casebooks)
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Book News Annotation:Nine primarily American contributors, from the field of English,
foreground questions of gender raised by feminist historiography for
the purpose of intervening in a critical tradition which usually
deflects issues of gender and sexuality. Many of the enquiries are
avowedly motivated by feminism and by an effort to see how the
general cultural situation of Jacobean women might have become a
plausible or even exemplary subject for Webster's tragedy of a
marriage across class lines. These essays do not measure the drama in
terms of artistic wholeness nor compare it to the acme of
Shakespeare. Instead, the contributors situate Webster on the cusp of
modernity, tracing the ways in which he anticipates new models of
political and social being.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index. About the AuthorDympna Callaghan is William P. Tolley Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. Table of ContentsIntroduction--Dympna Callaghan * The Duchess of Malfi --Karin S. Coddon * "Neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife"--Christy Desmet * Death on Stage, Death of the Stage--Andrea Henderson * Defining/Confining the Duchess--Theodora A. Jankowski * Drama and Sexual Politics--Kathleen McLuskie * The Heroics of Marriage in Renaissance Tragedy--Mary Beth Rose * Dominance of the Typical and The Duchess of Malfi --Susan Wells * Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi --Frank Whigham * The Moral Design of The Duchess of Malfi --R. S. White * Index Introduction--Dympna Callaghan * The Duchess of Malfi --Karin S. Coddon * "Neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife"--Christy Desmet * Death on Stage, Death of the Stage--Andrea Henderson * Defining/Confining the Duchess--Theodora A. Jankowski * Drama and Sexual Politics--Kathleen McLuskie * The Heroics of Marriage in Renaissance Tragedy--Mary Beth Rose * Dominance of the Typical and The Duchess of Malfi --Susan Wells * Sexual and Social Mobility in The Duchess of Malfi --Frank Whigham * The Moral Design of The Duchess of Malfi --R. S. White * Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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