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In Defense of Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret of Anjou
(2016-03-23)
Margaret of Anjou, who appears in the four history plays known as the first tetralogy (1-3 Henry VI and Richard III), is unique among William Shakespeare’s characters. Almost the entirety of her life is played out on stage, ...
The Mythological Function of Female Adolescent Individuation Narratives as Exemplified by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy
(2016-02-11)
Beloved and bemoaned, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games trilogy permeated and persist in our cultural conversations and imaginations. What about these particular narratives enthrall and ...
Defending Desdemona, Reclaiming Cordelia: A Woman-Centric Defense of Shakespeare's Heroines in Othello and King Lear
(2017-02-07)
Since the debut of Othello and King Lear more than 400 years ago, the characters of Desdemona and Cordelia have largely served to highlight the despair and fall of their male counterparts. The rise of women’s power in the ...
Still Mad: The Legacy of Madwoman in the Attic in Two Contemporary Novels.
(2018-04-10)
The basic purpose of this thesis project is to explore the ways in which the figure of the “madwoman” and the claims of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Madwoman in the Attic appear in contemporary fiction by women. A ...