10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «VIRAGO-LIKE» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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1
The Chinese
Virago: A Literary Theme
... to exercise control and indulging his wife in violence. When the virago refuses
to listen to Confucian persuasion and cannot be punished by the law, the use of
violence becomes legitimate. The murder of a wicked virago, like the elimination
...
2
Dramas of Hybridity: Performance and the Body
... moreover, an Amazon's voice is not the typically shrill voice of a lady but has a
man's gravity; it is "virago-like" (70). The gender identity of an Amazon, they point
out, is like that of a "hermaphrodite" (65), neither man nor woman, but both.
Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall,
2000
3
Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and ...
70-75) “O, an Amazon should have such a voice, virago like," Induction-Alberto
responds, ostensibly demonstrating for his fellow-actor the correct vocal pitch. “
Not play two parts in one?” he continues, “Away, away, 'tis common fashion. Nay
...
Dr Mark Albert Johnston,
2013
4
Conflicting Femininities in Medieval German Literature
Giburc is not just praised for her manly devotion, she is also depicted as
performing feats that were typically reserved for men or celibate religious women.
In contrast to the virago-like saints, Giburc is able to perform manly feats based
on, not ...
Dr Karina Marie Ash,
2013
5
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early ...
If the actor playing Antonio is, indeed, “on the verge of puberty,” he has no
assurance that his voice will remain Virago-like for the entirety of the performance
, let alone that he will be able to switch voluntarily between the “right point of a
lady's ...
6
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
Why may not the meaning be more simple, " I have never seen the most furious
woman so obstreperous and violent as he is ? " I do not conceive that firago was
a word of Shakspeare's coinage, but a common corruption for virago, like
fagaries ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope,
1821
7
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
The third PROTHYMIA or Promptitude was attired in a short tucked garment of
flame colour, wings at her back; her hair bright and bound up with ribbons; her
breast open, virago-like; her buskins so ribboned. She was crowned with a
chaplet of ...
Thomas Middleton, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino,
2010
In fact, Sharon resembles a far more American—and far less profanable—Wgure
than any of them: the bitchy—I mean virago-like mother. Think: Ethel Merman as
Rose, in the musical Gypsy (1959). Or Roseanne Barr as herself. And as writing ...
9
History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the ...
... so much pain along with it ; and thereupon gf ew an heroic virago, like the
ancient Amazons, as if she had changed her sex, as well as her mind." She was
the undegenerate daughter of the great Alfred, and sister of Edward, king of
England.
... characteristic feeling of the kind ; they did not trade in dishonour, like the
Roman senators whom Tacitus knew; but throughout history their favourite types
of womanhood have been the virago like Brun- hilda, or the patient slave like
Griselda.
Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot,
1860