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5 juillet 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.80895
- isbn: 9782753511637
- eisbn: 9782753562004
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Selima Lejri, « “Are you a man?” Gender roles in Macbeth », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.80895
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At the onset, Macbeth makes us face the dogmatic riddle put forth in the cryptic statement of “fair is foul and foul is fair”. The interchangeability of fair and foul opens up the possibility of a dual perspective while, at the same time, nullifying all linguistic and semantic definitions. This equation or de-differentiation seems to encapsulate the whole mystery of the play. Shakespeare seems to warn us from the start that his play will pervert all patterns of normality and topple all of our...