'[N]or bear I in this breast / So much cold spirit to be called a woman': The Queerness of Female Revenge in <i>The Maid’s Tragedy</i>

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  • Katherine M. Graham University of Westminster

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12745/et.21.1.3257

Abstract

In Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Maid’s Tragedy, we find Evadne, a female revenger who violently acts, avenging herself and the men around her. This article argues that the representational strategies of the play trouble our understanding of Evadne's gender, showing it as constructed via a nexus of sometimes contradictory fixations, fixations which are articulated through a rhetoric of bodies. Throughout this consideration, I connect this nexus with Evadne's proximity to, and enacting of, revenge.

 

Author Biography

Katherine M. Graham, University of Westminster

Katherine M. Graham (k.graham1@westminster.ac.uk) is a senior lecturer in English literature (theatre) in the department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster.

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Published

2018-01-22

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2018)

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