CURSO MONÓGRAFICO
SHAKESPEARE
Subject: 14159
-Curso monográfico de literatura,
Shakespeare in performance- Group A
Student´s name: Erika Catherine Schwartz
Abstract: In this webpage you can
visit four different papers dealing with Shakespeare's comedies. See the
abstracts below to each paper.
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paper1thetamingoftheshrewanunheardvoice.htm
This
paper presents a critical analysis of Katherina Minola in The Taming
of the Shrew supported by a generic overview of the characteristic ’marriage-authority’
and ‘gender-sexuality’ relations in the Elizabethan period.
The most fundamental characteristic of English society during Shakespeare’s
time was its high degree of stratification, its distinctive and all-pervasive
system of social inequality. The reality
of inequality was visible everywhere, and women were the most affected as they
were dominated by men. The aim of this paper is to show Katherina’s
suffering, isolation and oppression within the comedy, and also, with most of
the characters of the play. Moreover, a brief overview of what comedy really is
will be given in order to explain how society conventions affected women;
examples of this will be given with reference to Katherina,
the character of this analysis.
paper2techniquesofmanipulationcollective.htm
This collective paper presents a
common theme: Techniques of Manipulation,
which connects characters from The Taming
of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, and Midsummer night’s dream.
The
conflict between Beatrice and Benedick is a
psychological masterpiece and a brilliant illustration of human nature.
Although it is sometimes seen as a sub-plot, the feud between these two
characters is the highlight of the play. Nevertheless, this paper presents a
functional analysis of Beatrice seen as a brave and suffering woman, and almost
as an avenger who tries to break love conventions in her relationship with Benedick behaving herself in a rebel way and being
sharp-tongued; both factors of an unusual woman in a patriarchal society.
Therefore, Beatrice’s defiance and revenge are main functions that trigger the
play in a witty way.
paper4threecomediesthreewomenandthreekindsoflove.htm
If
we wish to define the particular kind of excellence that reaches definitive
form in Much Ado About
Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, and then passes away,
then we have to speak of these plays as comedies of love. The common element in
the different achievements is the power to realize love as a force making for
proper happiness and reconciliation over a wide area of human experience, and
as a spectrum which shows sanity and eccentricity in their social setting. In these
comedies, we share a sense of the absurdity of love with characters who know
their own absurdity, and whose success we desire. The ideal of social balance
and reconciliation (which all comedies share) is realized here in the power to
live with one’s own absurdity, with ease and confidence. That is why, in
this paper I will show through the main women in these plays, show love.
Academic year 2006/2007 (published
on May 2007)
Tutor: Dr.Vicente
Forés López
Student: Erika Catherine Schwartz
Universitat de València
Press
ecatsch@alumni.uv.es