Sexuality of female royals in renaissance plays: Duchess of Malfi, Gertrude and Cleopatra
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2017.
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10361-91562019-09-30T03:13:55Z Sexuality of female royals in renaissance plays: Duchess of Malfi, Gertrude and Cleopatra Prioti, Ishrat Jahan Chowdhury, Rukhsana Rahim Chowdhury, Mehtaz Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University Renaissance period Women Cleopatra Duchess of Malfi Gertrude Virginia Woolf Sexuality This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 55-59). The Renaissance period, even at the height of its progression, saw limited improvement in women’s lives regardless of their socio-economic status. While men were engaging themselves in the pursuit of knowledge, inventing new technology, and pushing boundaries, women were confined to the household, their lives suffering under the strict constraint of social, political, and religious customs which were strongly biased in favor of men. It is sadly surprising to see that aristocratic women, who were thought to be politically powerful, were equally controlled by the patriarchal conventions of society. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the postulation that, although wellborn women were recognized nobility, they did not have the same freedom and privileges that men of the same position enjoyed. To examine the restricted lives of aristocratic women, this thesis looks into three aristocratic women, viz-a-viz, the Duchess of Malfi, Gertrude and Cleopatra from the plays, The Duchess of Malfi (1623), Hamlet (1603) and Antony and Cleopatra (1623). Drawing on feminist perspective offered by Virginia Woolf and Simone De Beauvoir among others, this paper examines the degree of independence actually granted to highborn and governing women, and the extent of their right to pursue their sexual and matrimonial proclivities. Ishrat Jahan Prioti B.A. in English 2018-01-24T05:34:49Z 2018-01-24T05:34:49Z 2017 2017-04 Thesis ID 11303003 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9156 en BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 59 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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