Shakespeare's Representation of Women | Jean R. Brink (essay date 1993)
Jean R. Brink (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "Domesticating the Dark Lady," in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, Vol. XXIII 1993, pp. 93-108.
[In the following essay, Brink investigates Shakespeare 's portrayal of powerful women within patriarchal systems, using examples from selected sonnets, Titus Andronicus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.]
Theoretical models are frames through which we examine the particular events and specific individuals inscribed in documentary and literary texts. At their best, frames, like genres and literary conventions, suggest questions to be addressed; at their worst they obscure our vision, relegating to the periphery or concealing entirely anything that does not square with our assumptions. Since frames must select and focus, they render more abstract the complex texture of the material we examine.
Surely this selectivity explains at least in...
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