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A FEMINIST READING OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
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Author(s):
DR YOGESH KUMAR DUBEY
Vol - 4, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 341 - 350
(2013 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure has risen to an extraordinary diversity of critical opinion and interpretation. Various schools of criticism, whether they be theistic or secular, have responded to the play in their own ways. If some critics have seen the work as an "arch-problem" and "difficult" play, there are some other critics also who have seen the play as a "funny" work. If critics like Eileen Mackay have found the play "unsatisfactory" and "un-Shakespearean" , critics like John Masefield have gone to the extent of identifying the play as "one of the greatest works of the greatest English mind.
- William Hazlitt, “Troilus and Cressida” The Round Table- Characters of Shakespeare`s plays (London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1960), p. 221.
- S.L. Bethell, "Troilus and Cressida", Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism, ed. Leonard F. Dean (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), p. 261.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), p. 249.
- Cited by Gayle Greene, "Book Reviews", Shakespeare Quarterly (Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring, 1986), p. 129.
- Ibid., p.129-130.
- Achala S. Trivedi, "Introduction", Family Relationships In Shakespeare (Jaipur: Printwell, 1995) p.1.
- Ibid., p. 2.
- Sarup Singh, "Othello and Others", The Double Standard in Shakespeare and Related Essays (Delhi: Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1988), p. 31.
- Valerie Traub, "Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare", The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 129.
- Sandra Lee Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power", Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers (London: Routledge, 1997), p. 102.
- See Kenneth Muir, "Introduction", The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 13.
- David Daiches, "Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman", A Critical History of English Literature, Volume One (New Delhi: Allied Publishers Limited, 2000), p. 103.
- Kenneth Muir, "Introduction", The Oxford Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 15.
- Valerie Traub, p. 129.
- Kenneth Muir, "Introduction" p. 15-16.
- Ibid., p. 16.
- Ibid.
- Marilyn Frye, "Some Reflection on Separatism and Power", Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers (London:Routledge,1997) p.408.
- Kenneth Muir, "Introduction", p. 16.
- See Phyllis Rackin, "Book Reviews", Shakespeare Quarterly (Vol. 56, No.1, 2005), p. 115.
- Achala S. Trivedi, "Family Relationships in Elizabethan Age", Family Relationships in Shakespeare (Jaipur: Printwell, 1995), p. 14.
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