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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Titus Andronicus"”.
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… scholars have interpreted Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus as the play's villain. These scholars have held to the notion that as the villain, Aaron is evil incarnate and embodies all that countermands the order of the Roman patriarchy. I assert that these scholars have failed to consider …
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"Performing Marriage in Early Modern England: Wooing and Wedding in ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Spanish Tragedy"", and ""Titus Andronicus"
… and social order. Chapter Five argues that Titus Andronicus' Lavinia and Tamora disruptively enact the wooing and wedding rituals which reiterate dynastic marriage; their exchanges, betrothals, and marriages thus emphasize that marriage can make the state vulnerable rather than secure.
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
… Roman plays, a sub-genre which also includes <em>Titus Andronicus</em>, <em>Julius Caesar</em>, and <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. The one element these plays have in common is the ideal Roman hero, the <em>civis romanus</em>, who meets a tragic end. These heroes are not generally considered queer …
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
… standpoint,the thesis argues that Shakespeare‘s Titus Andronicus and Othello, Webster‘s The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi and Middleton‘s The Changeling and Women Beware Women deconstruct the binary opposites of speech and silence and highlight that gender difference is a self-defeating …
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… and domesticate housewives.</p> <p>In "Titus Andronicus and Catering for Bloody Banquets: the Witch in the Kitchen," I postulate Tamora as anti-mother and Titus as anti-wife: while the queen of Goths defiles nature and nurture, Titus literalizes the fright in the feminine by cooking and …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Rape of Lucrece, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline and Othello. Finally, I consider the simultaneous subversion and exploitation of Petrarchan rhetoric in his Dark Lady sonnets. Through this analysis, I suggest that Shakespeare consistently uses …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… Romeo and Juliet and the myth of law and order, Titus Andronicus and the myth of the "white goddess-destructive mother," and King Lear and the myth of the parent-child relationship. Language as a determiner of human realities may appear a modern apprehension, but this study reveals Shakespeare's …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… In the second chapter, “Conception in <em>Titus Andronicus</em>,” I argue that Tamora’s pregnancy narrative troubles temporalities of conception and resists the oversimplification of sexual practice and identity—the only mixed-race child on the early modern stage is shaped by female …