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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Bertheau, Shakespeare et le Genre. Shakespeare and Gender
ID  - bbbo907
T1  - "'Talk you of killing?': Rhetorical Construction of Tragic Femininity in William Shakespeare's Othello, Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi"
AU  - Griffin, Aurélie
AU  - Lemercier-Goddard, Sophie
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023
DO  - 10.4000/shakespeare.8084
KW  - feminism
LA  - English
AB  - "Challenge[s] the classic opposition between silence and speech to suggest that the two sometimes overlap" for tragic heroines such as Desdemona. Using rhetorical analysis, shows how Shakespeare constructs femininity and how Desdemona uses "eloquence to defend [her] character and integrity." English and French summaries, online.
ER  -