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Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam
- Author(s):
- Cristina León Alfar (see profile)
- Date:
- 2008
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC 17th-Century English, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Drama, English literature, Literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- british literature, critical theory, drama, early modern studies, feminist studies, Womens History Month, Early modern studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6T611
- Abstract:
- Giving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, The Tragedy of Mariam privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions against, and appropriations of patrilineal systems of law, custom, and power. I emphasize as equal the roles of Mariam, Doris, and Salome under Mosaic law in uncovering feminine anxieties staged in The Tragedy of Mariam, a drama that replays and resists early modern cultural and juridical policies of inequities between husbands and wives and privileges women’s experiences.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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