When Power Seduces Women: Shakespeare’S Tragic (Mother) Queens in Manga

• Authors: Andreea Şerban
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Power is seductive, and fantasies of power affect both men and women, who are sometimes willing to do anything in order to achieve or retain it. The paper looks at how such a modern transmediation as manga renders powerful femininity in two of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, namely Hamlet and Macbeth. The paper aims to discuss the ways in which the emotive behaviour of both female protagonists eventually makes them inappropriate for the power roles they assume as wives, queens and mothers.

Keywords

EN

emotive behaviour; manga; mother(hood); power; queen(ship); Shakespeare

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 126-136

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Andreea Şerban

• West University of Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0016