Gender and Irony in The Early Modern English Romance

• Authors: Dana Percec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses the ironic manner in which gender relations are often tackled in the early modern English romance, from Shakespeare’s comedies to Sidney’s pastorals or Lady Mary Wroth’s poetry. Strong female characters, effeminate males and the subversive, often ambiguous, manner in which the theme of love is approached in 16th- and 17th - century English literature are some of the aspects to be discussed.

Keywords

EN

agency gender; genre; irony; romance

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 303-320

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Dana Percec

• West University of Timişoara

References

• Bevington, David. (Ed.) 2007. Shakespeare’s Comedies. London and New York: Pearson Longman.
• Callaghan, Dympna. 2000. Shakespeare without Women. Representing Gender and Race onthe Renaissance Stage. London and New York: Routledge.
• Cavanagh, Sheila T. 2001. Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady MaryWroth’s Urania. Duquesne University Press.
• Cooper, Helen. 2004. The English Romance in Time. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Green, D. H. 2003. The Beginnings of Medieval Romance. Fact and Fiction, 1150-1220. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Hillman, R. 1992. Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama. London: Macmillan.
• Lamb, Mary Ellen, Valerie Wayne (Eds.). 2009. Staging Early Romance. Prose Fiction,Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare. New York and London: Routledge.
• Nanu, Adina. 2001. Arta pe om. Look-ul şi înţelesul semnelor vestimentare. Bucureşti: Compania.
• Roberts, Josephine A. (Ed.). 1995. Lady Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess ofMontgomery’s Urania. Medieval and Reniassance Texts and Studies.
• Sidney, Philip. 2011. The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. Forgotten Books, kindle edition.
• Smith, Bruce R. 1995. Homosexual Desire in Shakespare’s England. A Cultural Poetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Traub, Valerie. 1992. Desire and Anxiety. Circulations of Sexuality in ShakespareanDrama. London and New York: Routledge.
• Zurcher, Amelia A. 2007. Seventeenth Century English Romance. Allegory, Ethics, andPolitics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.[WoS]
• Yates, Frances A. 1985. Astraea. The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. New York and London: Routledge.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0028-5