“Would you have me false to my nature? Rather say I play the man I am”: the Deconstruction of Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
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5 juillet 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.80913
- isbn: 9782753511637
- eisbn: 9782753562004
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Delphine Lemonnier-Texier, « “Would you have me false to my nature? Rather say I play the man I am”: the Deconstruction of Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.80913
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Because of the exclusion of women from the stage in early modern England, Shakespeare’s female characters have drawn considerable interest from critics in the fields of feminist and gender studies since the early 1980s, leaving the male characters and the notion of masculinity aside, as if the male identity of the actors performing the parts erased the representational dimension of masculinity on the Shakespearean stage. Only recently has this assumption been challenged with such works as Mar...