Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Marissa Nicosia
Reader 2
Warren Liu
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Abstract
This thesis delves deep into an analysis of madness in two seventeenth century tragic plays: William Shakespeare's Macbeth and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. The first portion of the dissertation will provide historical background and context. The rest will be a critical literary analysis centered around the argument that both plays present an inextricable connection between loss of mental clarity and gender.
Recommended Citation
Mollo, Vittoria, ""A Great Man's Madness": An Inquiry Into Sanity and Gender in Jacobean Tragedy" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 550.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/550
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