Female monstrosity, besieged masculinity, and the bounds of race in Elizabeth Cary’s the tragedy of Mariam (1613)
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Universidad de Huelva
info
ISSN: 1137-005X
Argitalpen urtea: 2006
Zenbakia: 13
Orrialdeak: 57-72
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: The Grove: Working papers on English studies
Laburpena
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.