Female monstrosity, besieged masculinity, and the bounds of race in Elizabeth Cary’s the tragedy of Mariam (1613)

  1. Pilar Cuder-Domínguez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Huelva
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    Universidad de Huelva

    Huelva, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03a1kt624

Revista:
The Grove: Working papers on English studies

ISSN: 1137-005X

Año de publicación: 2006

Número: 13

Páginas: 57-72

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) has been the subject of much critical discussion as being a play that stages the tragic implications of women’s submission in early modern society. Yet, as this paper contends, the play’s manifold interest lies beyond the power of its protagonist, Queen Mariam, or the striking life of its author. A thorough analysis of the gender (femininity/masculinity) and race politics in Cary’s play attempts to unravel the complex ways in which The Tragedy of Mariam portrays an embattled society, where the old, conventional social order of male, white privilege is under the attack of forces bent on change.

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