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Time, gender, and difference in Shakespeare's festive comedies
Doornik, Allison Marie
Doornik, Allison Marie
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[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
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2013
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This thesis examines Shakespeare's festive comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. Drawing from textual analysis, historical approaches to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and contemporary theory on gender, I make the case for a feminist interpretation that emphasizes agency and empowerment. My means for crafting this argument stresses the implicitness of time to these issues; thus, while arguing for a feminist interpretation of these texts, I also argue for reading that emphasizes attention to time. In my first chapter, I argue that A Midsummer Night's Dream creates a "feminine time" which is emblematized in the imagery of the moon and associated with the goddess Diana. In my second chapter, I argue that the feminine textual manipulation in Twelfth Night allows for an alternative time which opposes the play's festive genre. In my last chapter, I examine the time of As You Like It's setting and use it to show how the play enacts specifically Early Modern fantasies--and fears--pertaining to the female figure
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English