Focusing on the visual constructions and pictorial representations of the biblical character of Judith, it explores the way in which this figure's appearances in Renaissance and Baroque painting can foster a novel reading of passages in _Love's Labour's Lost_ and _Cymbeline_. The iconographic tradition based on this ambivalent biblical heroine sheds new light on Shakespeare's representation of female agency as an act of cutting and counterbiting
Over the Edge Shakespeare, Judith, and the Virtuous Use of Female Indiscretion and Deception
CORONATO, R.
2020
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Focusing on the visual constructions and pictorial representations of the biblical character of Judith, it explores the way in which this figure's appearances in Renaissance and Baroque painting can foster a novel reading of passages in _Love's Labour's Lost_ and _Cymbeline_. The iconographic tradition based on this ambivalent biblical heroine sheds new light on Shakespeare's representation of female agency as an act of cutting and counterbitingFile in questo prodotto:
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