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Article: Warrior Women in the Plays of Cavendish and Killigrew.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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The figure of the Amazon or warrior woman repeatedly emerges from classical and Renaissance cultural documents as an integral part of the story of national identity and state formation. Travel narratives, epics, stage plays, masques--these diverse forms collectively mobilize the warrior woman to make issues of gender difference, chastity, and sexuality central to the imaginative construction of nationhood. For adventurers like Sir Walter Ralegh, "Amazons figure the sense in which boundaries between experience and fantasy are permeable," allowing the recuperation of classical models of heroism. [1] William Shakespeare might use Joan la Pucelle to denigrate French ...
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