Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

Wai Fong Cheang

doi:10.2478/v10320-012-0026-5

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Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

Gender Studies

Volume 11 (2012): Issue 1 (November 2012)

By: Wai Fong Cheang

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.

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