When Power Seduces Women: Shakespeare’S Tragic (Mother) Queens in Manga

Power is seductive, and fantasies of power affect both men and women, who are sometimes willing to do anything in order to achieve or retain it. The paper looks at how such a modern transmediation as manga renders powerful femininity in two of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, namely Hamlet and Macbeth...

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Main Author: Şerban Andreea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2014-03-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0016