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Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Cristina Leon Alfar

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Description:How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina Leon Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female sexuality that recur in the form of a slander narrative throughout William Shakespeare s work. She argues that the plays stage a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. While men s accusations are built on a foundation of political, religious, legal, and domestic discourses about men s superiority to, and rule over, women, whose weaker natures render them perpetually suspect, women s bonds with other women animate defenses of virtue and obedience, fidelity and love, work loose the fabric of patrilineal power that undergirds masculine privileges in marriage, and signify a discursive shift that constitutes the site of agency within a system of oppression that ought to prohibit such agency. That women s agency in the early modern period must be tied to the formations of power that officially demand their subjection need not undermine their acts. In what Alfar calls Shakespeare s cuckoldry plays, women s rhetoric of defense is both subject to the discourse of sexual honor and finds a ground on which to shift it as women take control of and replace sexual slander with their own narratives of marital betrayal."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). To get started finding Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina Leon Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female sexuality that recur in the form of a slander narrative throughout William Shakespeare s work. She argues that the plays stage a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. While men s accusations are built on a foundation of political, religious, legal, and domestic discourses about men s superiority to, and rule over, women, whose weaker natures render them perpetually suspect, women s bonds with other women animate defenses of virtue and obedience, fidelity and love, work loose the fabric of patrilineal power that undergirds masculine privileges in marriage, and signify a discursive shift that constitutes the site of agency within a system of oppression that ought to prohibit such agency. That women s agency in the early modern period must be tied to the formations of power that officially demand their subjection need not undermine their acts. In what Alfar calls Shakespeare s cuckoldry plays, women s rhetoric of defense is both subject to the discourse of sexual honor and finds a ground on which to shift it as women take control of and replace sexual slander with their own narratives of marital betrayal."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). To get started finding Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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