The Tragedy of Mariam |(1613) by Elizabeth Cary is a play that depicts a very turn of gender roles and plot as a result of the “grotesque”. Cary shows Mariam as the character that flips the roles of the play and plot. Cary gives Mariam a public voice, exposing this trait as something demonic, and as an aspect that audiences in the Jacobean era are not used to seeing. In this paper I argue that Mariam and Salome in particular are performing the role of a grotesque wives. This performance creates the topsy-turvy world of carnivalesque misrule, making Mariam stand out as an outcast in a society that is used to obedient women and women that do not have public voices.
Tawfiq Bedaiwi, H. (2024). Feminine Grotesque in The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 52(7), 244-260. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2024.367634
MLA
Hayat Tawfiq Bedaiwi. "Feminine Grotesque in The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary". Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 52, 7, 2024, 244-260. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2024.367634
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Tawfiq Bedaiwi, H. (2024). 'Feminine Grotesque in The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary', Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 52(7), pp. 244-260. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2024.367634
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Tawfiq Bedaiwi, H. Feminine Grotesque in The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary. Annals of the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, 2024; 52(7): 244-260. doi: 10.21608/aafu.2024.367634
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