Shakespeare's visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in political action. The visions discussed in th...

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Main Author:	Wright, Laura Jayne (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:	Cambridge elements
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Criticism and interpretation Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Characters Women in literature Visions in literature
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	Shakespeare's visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking dreams. These women recount their visions through acts of rhetoric, designed to persuade and, crucially, to directly intervene in political action. The visions discussed in this Element are therefore not simply moments of inspiration but of political intercession. The vision performed or recounted on stage offers a proleptic moment of female speech that forces audiences to confront questions of narrative truth and women's testimony. This Element interrogates the scepticism that Shakespeare's visionary women face and considers the ways in which they perform the truth of their experiences to a hostile onstage audience. It concludes that prophecy gives women a brief moment of access to political conversations in which they are not welcome as they wrest narrative control from male speakers and speak their truth aloud
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (74 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009057394
DOI:	10.1017/9781009057394