Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1985, <i>The Subject of Tragedy</i> takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts, in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts, the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining, free origin of language, choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related. </p> <p>Preface; 1. Introduction: Reading the Past; <b>Part I: Man</b> 2. Unity 3. Knowledge 4. Autonomy; <b>Part II: Woman</b> 5. Alice Arden’s crime 6. Silence and speech 7. Finding a place 8. Conclusion: changing the present; Notes; Bibliography; Index</p>