COD 2011 - G619

Female adolescents in love in Shakespeare’s plays (Cressida, Juliet and Ophelia)

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1 sessions, start: 06-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Verónica Storni Fricke
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Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 September 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Verónica Storni Fricke

Verónica Storni Fricke is now doing her doctorate studies on feminist criticism of Shakespeare's plays at UBA, Filosofía y Letras. She is a graduate English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas, specialized in English Literature. Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Tenured Lecturer in the Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism" at IES en Lenguas Vivas. IB English teacher at Tarbut College and Instituto Ballester Schule.
Literature lovers.


- To encourage personal response to Shakespeare's texts from a feminist perspective
- To reflect on the meaning of love as a historical and cultural notion as seen in the plays.
- To acquaint candidates with different approaches within feminism
- To find "faultlines" in the texts, which may help us read the plays in a more enjoyable way.
- Self, desire and becoming a woman.
- Gender violence and women as victims of the patriarchal discourse.
- Self-representation through myth.
- Reading against the grain to fit the feminist project.
- Essentialist and postmodern feminist readings.
- Textual analysis.
- Group discussion.
(Candidates are expected to have read Troilus and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet)
- Belsey, C. (1985) The Subject of Tragedy. Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Routledge.
- Bloom, H. (1999) Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. London. Fourth Estate.
- Braidotti, R. (1994) Nomadic Subjects. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Braidotti, R. (2000), "Hacia una nueva representación del sujeto" y "La diferencia sexual como proyecto político nómade", en Sujetos nómades, Buenos Aires: Paidós.
- Braidotti, R. (2002) Metamorphoses. Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming. USA and UK: Polity Press.
- Callaghan, D. (ed.) (2000) A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- Callaghan, D., Helms, L. y Singh, J. (eds). (1994) The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell.
- Coppélia Kahn (1981) Man's Estate. Masculine Identity in Shakespeare. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (available online in google books).
- Coppélia Kahn, (1997) Roman Shakespeare. Warriors, Wounds and Women. Routledge: London.
- Dash, I. (1981) Wooing, Wedding and Power: Women in Shakespeare's Plays. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Dusinberre, J. (1996) Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. Macmillan: London.
- Jardine, L. (1989) Still Harping on Daughters. Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare, New York: Columbia University Press.
- Jardine, L. (1996) Reading Shakespeare Historically. Routledge: London.
- Kott, J. (1967) Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen: London.
- Kott, J. (1967) Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen: London.
- Lacqueur, T. (1990) Making Sex. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press: London.
- Molloy, S (2006) "Identidades textuales femeninas: estrategias de autofiguración", Mora N. 12, diciembre, Buenos Aires: IIEGE/FFyL-UBA.
- Paster, Gail Kern (1993) The Body Embarrassed. Drama and the Disciples of Shame in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press: New York.
- Rutter, C. (2001) Enter the Body. Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage. Routledge: London.
- Showalter, E. (1985) "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism", in Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, eds. Patricia Parker and Geofrey Hartman, New York and London(available online in google books).
- Sinfield, A. (2006) Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality. Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Routledge: New York
- Traub, V. (1992) Desire and Anxiety. Circulations of Sexuality in Shakesperean Drama. Routledge: London.
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