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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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Pub. Date:

1998

Journal:

Jx: A Journal in Culture and Criticism

Volume:

2

Issue:

2

Page Range:

179 - 207

Status:

Published

Last Updated:

2 years ago

License:

All Rights Reserved

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