10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GYNECIA»
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gynecia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Sir Philip Sidney and Arcadia
Gynecia, his queen, abandons a lifetime of virtue, marked by admirable conduct
in every sphere, in the grip of uncontrollable desire for Pyrocles. So ravenous
and implacable is her appetite that she hates and would be prepared to kill ...
2
Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney's Arcadia
ability to order a household.10 Gynecia's household is in chaos due to her
unhuswifely actions: she forces Cleophila to set up an adulterous assignation
and even considers murdering her own daughter in order to make way for herself
in ...
3
Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance
In turning to that body for narrative resolution, we find ourselves looking in the
wrong place. The Arcadia emphasizes this through the example of Gynecia, Philo
- clea's mother, who desires Cleophila because she presumes "Cleophila" to be
a ...
4
The Imperfect Friend: Emotion and Rhetoric in Sidney, ...
Basilius's emotional response to Gynecia's words and gentle attitude paves the
way for the reconciliation he initiates at the end of the romance. Because 'his own
shame had found him culpable,' Basilius is touched by Gynecia's 'mildness' ...
5
Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender ...
Wroth 's uncle, Philip Sidney, in fact introduces the central female characters in
his Old Arcadia in the context of their social containment by the male head of the
family, when Gynecia appears with her daughters in the protective custody ...
6
Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
for Pyrocles/Cleophila is the threat implicit in the anonymous sexual encounter
that occurs in Cleophila/Pyrocles' cave between Basilius and Gynecia disguised
as Cleophila. What is significant here is that Basilius can unknowingly be led into
...
7
Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England
In this context, the anger Gynecia demonstrates throughout The Old Arcadia can
be addressed as efforts to lay claim to a kind of autonomy to desire. For Marilyn
Frye, the emotion of anger has intimate associations with such concepts of ...
8
Substitution and Distortion: Amazon Bodies in Sidney, ...
And Gynecia's realization of what Cleophila is makes her shame at this attraction
of a tremendously different quality than that of her daughter; Philoclea feels
shame at the attraction because she believes that she is experiencing desire for ...
9
The Bed-trick in English Renaissance Drama: Explorations in ...
as an Amazon, finds himself the recipient of the unwanted attentions of Basilius,
who believes him to be a woman, and the equally unwanted attentions of
Basilius's wife, Gynecia, who has seen through his female disguise. To rid
himself of ...
10
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of ...
When Philoclea sees the two together, she imagines that Pyrocles has
inconstantly shifted his affections to her mother, Gynecia. In contrast to Gynecia,
when Philoclea believes she has been betrayed, she “yield[s] up her soule to be
a pray to ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GYNECIA»
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gynecia is used in the context of the following news items.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Mashes-Up The Go-Go's With …
King Basilius (front, Michael Sharon) takes his queen,
Gynecia (Miriam A. Laube) and family and heads out of Arcadia. Jenny Graham.
The ... «Jefferson Public Radio, Jun 15»
