An exploration of Femininity in Shakespeare's Tragedies.(Hamlet)
An exploration of Femininity in Shakespeare's Tragedies.
(Hamlet).
In a patriarchal structured society femininity and the female are restricted or defined by the socio-cultural precepts imposed by the male hegemony. Therefore, in order to examine the feminine as presented in Hamlet and other plays, I believe, we must have at the fore-front of our minds the masculine system which surrounds the feminine. For this reason, I propose the most satisfactory means of examining the role …
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…p. 99-108.
T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
Peter Eriskson, Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama
(pub. Uni. of California Press, 1985)
R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
(pub. London, 1960)
David Leverenz, 'The Woman in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View'
in, Signs, 4 (1978) 291-308.
eds. P. Parker, Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
and G. Hartman (pub. London, 1985)
Valerie Traub, Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
(pub. Routledge, London 1992)
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