The representation of gender in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Antony and Cleopatra

Verena Schorkhuber

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grin Publishing
Country
Germany
Published
26 September 2007
Pages
36
ISBN
9783638767491

The representation of gender in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra

Verena Schorkhuber

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Edinburgh, course: Tragedy, History and Sovereignty in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poetry and Drama, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Building on the assumption that differences between the sexes in tragedy are defined through competing representations of heroism, this paper shall take a closer look at the representation of gender in two premodern tragedies, Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The aim of this paper shall be to provide a short introduction to (Shakespeare) feminist criticism, which will be supplemented with an overview of various notable instances of the representation of gender in these two works.

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