Hermia and the Dark Lady: From Perceived Others to Potential Erotic Objects
The present paper is focused on the figures of the Dark Lady of the sonnets and Hermia from A Midsummer Night‟s Dream as modes of writing against the Petrarchian ideal. The former is the most explicit of Shakespeare‘s suite of “dark ladies” (which includes Anne, Kate, Hero, Phoebe, Cleopatra, and Ro...
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| Language: | English |
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Linguaculture |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lincu.2017.2017.issue-2/lincu-2017-0020/lincu-2017-0020.xml?format=INT |