Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Towards a feminist interpretation of female roles in early modern society: Examples from William Shakespeare's tragedies such as Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-01) Alajmi, Reem; Durrant, Michael; Radulescu, RalucaThis dissertation aims to explore the roles and the representation of women in William Shakespeare's tragedies through a feminist critical framework. The texts under study in this research will include three of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragic play texts: Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. Specifically, this dissertation aims to investigate the role of women in the plays and how they enable us to understand the role of women in the early modern England through this literary lens. The first section offers a general introduction to the overall argument and the critical and theoretical background of this study. The introduction also includes the research aims, research questions, the definition of terms, the theoretical frame for analysis in this research and the importance of the study and the review of related literature. The second section shall include the research method. The third chapter shall include the analysis of female roles in Othello, the fourth chapter shall focus on female roles in Hamlet, the fifth chapter shall focus on female roles in Macbeth.34 0