Graham, K.M. 2018. ‘[N]or bear I in this breast / So much cold spirit to be called a woman’: The Queerness of Female Revenge in The Maid’s Tragedy. Early Theatre. 21 (1), pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.12745/et.21.1.3257
| Title | ‘[N]or bear I in this breast / So much cold spirit to be called a woman’: The Queerness of Female Revenge in The Maid’s Tragedy |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Graham, K.M. |
| Abstract | In Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy, we find Evadne, a female revenger who violently acts, avenging herself and the men around her. In this article, I offer a consideration of Evadne which argues that the representational strategies of the play trouble our understanding of her gender, showing it as constructed via a nexus of sometimes contradictory fixations, fixations which are articulated through a rhetoric of bodies. Throughout this consideration, I connect this nexus to her proximity to, and enacting of, revenge. |
| Keywords | The Maid's Tragedy; Revenge; Early Modern Revenge Tragedy; Queer |
| Journal | Early Theatre |
| Journal citation | 21 (1), pp. 107-126 |
| ISSN | 1206-9078 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Early Theatre |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.12745/et.21.1.3257 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 22 Jan 2018 |