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"'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble"
- Author(s):
- Cristina León Alfar (see profile)
- Date:
- 1998
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC 16th-Century English, LLC 17th-Century English, LLC Shakespeare, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Drama, English literature, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Womens History Month, Early modern studies, Shakespeare
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XW3M
- Abstract:
- Shakespeare's MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play's violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend on women's abject confirmation for their unremitting self-perpetuation.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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