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Women Beware Women (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
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Women Beware Women (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Series: New Mermaids
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Loot Price R332
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One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies
essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being
wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter.
The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth
century, but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife
of a middling commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of
Florence and becomes his mistress, first secretly, then openly and
finally, after her husband has been seduced by the scheming Lady
Livia and stabbed by Livia's brother, the Duke's wife. Livia plots
her revenge, and the play ends with a banquet and a masque that are
a triumph of black farce. Middleton's powerful, psychologically
complex female characters and his clear-sighted analysis of
misogyny are bound to impress today's audiences, but it is the
pervasive irony - cynicism, even - with which he dissects the
motivations of both oppressor and victim that makes him so eerily
modern.
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