La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmes
In The Duchess of Malfi, in which Linda Woodbridge and Christy Desmet have identified the influence of the Woman controversy, Webster replicates the epideictic model of early modern debates on the subject of woman between misogynists and philogynists. Issues of the Controversy – the nature of woman,...
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| description | In The Duchess of Malfi, in which Linda Woodbridge and Christy Desmet have identified the influence of the Woman controversy, Webster replicates the epideictic model of early modern debates on the subject of woman between misogynists and philogynists. Issues of the Controversy – the nature of woman, gynocracy, marriage and celibacy, widowhood, access to the female body – are central to the play; the proclamations of the Duchess and the Aragonian brothers rehearse the cultural representations on both sides, while Webster’s monumentalizing of the Duchess reads like an attempt to add her name to the available catalogues of exempla. Yet the play’s structure with its system of parallels suggests its purpose is not so much to take sides in the debate as to hold a hermeneutic discourse on the production of polarised interpretive models. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-120aa309d88c420a923f3bbf62e2b55d2025-01-30T13:47:22ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022019-01-012610.4000/sillagescritiques.6910La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmesAnny Crunelle VanrighIn The Duchess of Malfi, in which Linda Woodbridge and Christy Desmet have identified the influence of the Woman controversy, Webster replicates the epideictic model of early modern debates on the subject of woman between misogynists and philogynists. Issues of the Controversy – the nature of woman, gynocracy, marriage and celibacy, widowhood, access to the female body – are central to the play; the proclamations of the Duchess and the Aragonian brothers rehearse the cultural representations on both sides, while Webster’s monumentalizing of the Duchess reads like an attempt to add her name to the available catalogues of exempla. Yet the play’s structure with its system of parallels suggests its purpose is not so much to take sides in the debate as to hold a hermeneutic discourse on the production of polarised interpretive models.https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/6910The Duchess of MalfiJohn WebsterChristine de Pizanreception theorySemiramiswoman controversy |
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| title | La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmes |
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| title_short | La Duchesse d’Amalfi et la Querelle des femmes |
| title_sort | la duchesse d amalfi et la querelle des femmes |
| topic | The Duchess of Malfi John Webster Christine de Pizan reception theory Semiramis woman controversy |
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