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2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Rebetz

The article is a close reading of Isabella’s soliloquy in act IV of The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd. Pointing at the difference between the role of women in Early Modern re­ality and their function in contemporary plays, it demonstrates the perversity of a society where women were regularly marginalized and where, even in theatre, their transgressions of the boundaries imposed on them by the patriarchal social apparatus led to extremely unfavourable repercussions. Isabella, emotionally crushed by the foul murder of her son, decides in her helplessness to take her own life. In a world dominated by men, she does not quietly accept her passive role, but works within its limitations to become a character that takes action, albeit action that ends her life. Before making the symbolic gesture of stabbing herself, she exclaims against the circumstances which drove her to it. Her speech can be seen as one of the climactic points of the play.


2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-223
Author(s):  
Darren Freebury-Jones
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Chronos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 37-68
Author(s):  
Pierre Cadenne
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En 1522, la nouvelle de la prise de l’île de Rhodes par les Ottomans eut un grand retentissement à travers toute la Chrétienté. Inspirés par le rapport du chevalier Jacques Bâtard de Bourbon, imprimé en 1526 à Paris par Gilles de Gourmont, de nombreux auteurs adaptèrent la destinée des Hospitaliers dans de nombreux textes, tels que la tragédie Soliman et Persedea de Thomas Kyd en 1587-92. La chute de Rhodes aux mains des Ottomans fut vécue comme un évènement traumatique par les commentateurs chrétiens. On en tient pour preuve que la plupart des œuvres inspirées du texte de Jacques Bâtard de Bourbon furent des œuvres à charge contre les Ottomans, déployant tout un arsenal d’arguments pour décrédibiliser le conquérant en l’accusant de toutes les sauvageries et horreurs imaginables (Nardonne 2010).


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