Chasing Power through Transformation: A Study of Queen Margaret in Shakespeare's First Tetralogy
Date Issued
2004
Date
2004
Author(s)
Lu, Gieh-hwa
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Abstract
This thesis is a feminist study to argue that Queen Margaret of Anjou throughout Shakespeare's First Tetralogy transforms her feminine identities in pursuit of political power by implementing her forceful rhetoric. The thesis purposes to read Shakespeare's Queen Margaret in the context of Renaissance: Renaissance women writers appropriate biblical female characters to reconfigure the traditional virtues; in addition, Shakespeare, influenced by a diversity of Renaissance historiographies, devises his own history plays in which he lets his women articulate and exert their influence upon their male counterparts in comparison with Holinshed's Chronicles. The thesis bases the following chapters on the interweave between the Renaissance background and Shakespeare's First Tetralogy; the subsequent chapters thereafter textualize Queen Margaret from three facets—the relationship between the male courtiers and the queen, the comparison among Joan Puzel, Eleanor, the Duchess of Gloucester, and her, and lastly, the juxtaposition of the unnatural counterparts, the queen and Richard of Gloucester.
Subjects
歷史劇
權力
瑪格麗特皇后
史料編纂
Renaissance women writers
Queen Margaret
historiography
history play
Type
thesis
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