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- W2496795812 abstract "Othello and The Tempest seem unlikely plays to illustrate queenship. They revolve around strong males tyrannizing over females—a wife and a daughter—who display few of the authoritative qualities of Shakespeare’s model woman ruler, Elizabeth I. However, the plays do present ways of thinking about female authority that were new, even revolutionary, for an early modern English audience. References in each play to sightings of difierently formed humans—men whose heads stand below their shoulders—allow for rethinking the human body as a model for political and marital hierarchies. When these references are analyzed in conjunction with the plays’ politics, Othello and The Tempest suggest that, despite early modern beliefs about the unnaturalness of woman rulers, queenship could arise organically in the known world. This suggestion is surprising in light of the plays’ bold exhibitions of male power. More significant is the radical political perspective that the differently formed body implies, given that constructions of early modern authority rest on the idea that a human head is and will always be above and thus superior to the human body.1 This essay will examine early modern marital and political theorists’ manipulation of the body metaphor as a way of legitimizing exclusive male rulership and proceed with an analysis of the plays, ultimately demonstrating Shakespeare’s subtle undermining of early modern political and social orthodoxy." @default.
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- W2496795812 title "“No head eminent above the rest”: Female Authority in Othello and The Tempest" @default.
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