Intruders in the Play World: The Dynamics of Gender in Molière's ComediesFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996 - 231 من الصفحات A much more imposing presence is that of the comic heroine who invades male territory by usurping traditionally male roles. Any attempt to be like men must be suppressed because it endangers the very existence of the play world, which depends on the dialectics of difference and sameness to retain its exclusivity. Most frightening of all, however, is the shadow of infidelity. It is woman's intrinsic means of retaliation. The female cheat who enters a separate space, a play world analogous to, yet apart from that of the male characters, is generally the adulteress or the coquette. Her game is played at man's expense and his public ridicule is symbolized by horns. Thus, it would appear that the ultimate threat to the play world established by male characters is the creation of a parallel hegemony in which the female wields power through deception. |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Of Myth and Men | 54 |
The Interrupted Banquet | 99 |
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