By Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Within the box of seventeenth-century English drama, ladies participated not just as spectators or readers, yet increasingly more as patronesses, as playwrights, and in a while as actresses or even as managers. This learn examines English girls writers' tragedies and tragicomedies within the 17th century, in particular among 1613 and 1713, which signify the book dates of the 1st unique tragedy (Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedy of Mariam") and the final one (Anne Finch's "Aristomenes") written through a Stuart girl playwright. via this one-hundred 12 months interval, significant adjustments in dramatic shape and beliefs are traced in women's tragedies and tragicomedies. In analyzing the full of the century from a gender standpoint, this undertaking breaks clear of traditional techniques to the topic, which are likely to identify an unbridgeable hole among the early Stuart interval and the recovery. All in all, this research represents a big overhaul of present theories of the evolution of English drama in addition to supplying an unheard of reconstruction of the family tree of seventeenth-century English girls playwrights.
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The body politic and the gendered body come together in her, just as family politics is tangled with state politics, as described above. From the very beginning of this play, then, race and rank are intimately associated by means of the kingdom and of this marriage of Othello-like unequals, as Callaghan explains: Palestine provided an unusually suitable site for the depiction of male tyranny and female resistance, and for a protagonist who embodies an unstable mixture of antithetical elements—female virtue and rebellion.
It is perhaps this virtuous concern for other people, even those whom he should count as his enemies, that makes Constabarus truly Mariam’s counterpart, but like her, Constabarus is essentially passive, and his resistance to injustice or tyranny never takes a productive form. His tragic stature derives from the fact that, though not lacking in either virtue or honesty, he nevertheless falls prey to Salome’s plot, very much as Mariam does. Thus, he is unable to protect himself from Herod’s cruelty, and as he is led to his death he is as stoically virtuous as Mariam herself will later be, in a scene of high moral tone that prepares the audience for the scene of her sad death and the later discovery of her innocence.
His love is easy for the audience to perceive as an incapacitating blindness to view her and their situation as they truly are, and thus, rather than admiration, Silleus deserves the audience’s pity. Out of all the male characters, only Constabarus stands out for his virtues. Salome’s husband is a character of higher stature than Herod himself, as he is FRQVLVWHQW LQ KLV VSHHFK DQG KLV DFWLRQV WKURXJKRXW WKH SOD\ +H LV WKH ¿UVW RQH to realize the subversive potential of Salome’s doings, which threaten the gender hierarchy of the kingdom by taking away men’s privileges.
