CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNSEX
PRESENT
Present
I unsex
you unsex
he/she/it unsexes
we unsex
you unsex
they unsex
Present continuous
I am unsexing
you are unsexing
he/she/it is unsexing
we are unsexing
you are unsexing
they are unsexing
Present perfect
I have unsexed
you have unsexed
he/she/it has unsexed
we have unsexed
you have unsexed
they have unsexed
Present perfect continuous
I have been unsexing
you have been unsexing
he/she/it has been unsexing
we have been unsexing
you have been unsexing
they have been unsexing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I unsexed
you unsexed
he/she/it unsexed
we unsexed
you unsexed
they unsexed
Past continuous
I was unsexing
you were unsexing
he/she/it was unsexing
we were unsexing
you were unsexing
they were unsexing
Past perfect
I had unsexed
you had unsexed
he/she/it had unsexed
we had unsexed
you had unsexed
they had unsexed
Past perfect continuous
I had been unsexing
you had been unsexing
he/she/it had been unsexing
we had been unsexing
you had been unsexing
they had been unsexing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will unsex
you will unsex
he/she/it will unsex
we will unsex
you will unsex
they will unsex
Future continuous
I will be unsexing
you will be unsexing
he/she/it will be unsexing
we will be unsexing
you will be unsexing
they will be unsexing
Future perfect
I will have unsexed
you will have unsexed
he/she/it will have unsexed
we will have unsexed
you will have unsexed
they will have unsexed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been unsexing
you will have been unsexing
he/she/it will have been unsexing
we will have been unsexing
you will have been unsexing
they will have been unsexing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would unsex
you would unsex
he/she/it would unsex
we would unsex
you would unsex
they would unsex
Conditional continuous
I would be unsexing
you would be unsexing
he/she/it would be unsexing
we would be unsexing
you would be unsexing
they would be unsexing
Conditional perfect
I would have unsex
you would have unsex
he/she/it would have unsex
we would have unsex
you would have unsex
they would have unsex
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been unsexing
you would have been unsexing
he/she/it would have been unsexing
we would have been unsexing
you would have been unsexing
they would have been unsexing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you unsex
we let´s unsex
you unsex
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
unsexing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSEX»
Discover the use of
unsex in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unsex and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s
Using historical and feminist psycho-linguistic studies as a base, Ty explores some of the complexities encountered in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Helen Maria Williams, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Smith
2
English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s:
Unsex'd ...
This book examines what sixteen British women, radical and conservative, famous and notorious, wrote about their sex in the 1790s.
3
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
'Unsex'd. females': Barbauld,. Robinson,. and. Smith. In the 1815 collection
Poetic Trifles, a poem entitled 'What came of firing a Gun' describes the
unfortunate victim of a boy's killing spree, a bird knocked out of the sky in the
poem's first lines: ...
Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee, 2004
4
The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary ...
(A.M.) The Unsex'd Females: A Poem (1798) 10 “Our unsex'd female writers now
instruct, or confuse, us and themselves, in the labyrinth of politics, or turn us wild
with Gallic frenzy.” —Pursuits ofLiterature, Edit. 7. p. 238.1 Thou, who with all ...
D.L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir, 2010
5
Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print ...
Richard Polwhele (1760-1838), Anglican cleric, antiquarian, and pamphleteer,
was best known for this poem which drew on a misogynist reference in TJ.
Mathias'sThe Pursuits of Literature (see Section One). The Unsex'd Females ...
6
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in ...
Polwhele, Unsex'd Females, 14—15, 23; compare Austen's characterization of
Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, 110. 71. Anti-Jacobin Review, 1:94; Polwhele,
Unsex'd Females, 21; European Magazine, 33:251. 72. Godwin, Memoirs, 56, 55.
G. J. Barker-Benfield, 1996
7
Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
An acid alliance of these discourses etches Richard Polwhele's tirade The Unsex'
d Females (}u[). On a polarized anti-Jacobin map, the unsex'd deformation of “
Gallic freaks” (¤) gets reviewed, then countermanded by “the sex” (}) in proper ...
8
Romantic Border Crossings
William Stafford's English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s: Unsex 'd
and Proper Females (2002) uses Richard Polwhele's infamous terms from “The
Unsex'd Females” provisionally to discriminate between “proper” and “unsex'd” ...
Professor Jeffrey Cass, Professor Larry Peer, 2013
9
Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the ...
1 .22) 'Unsex me here' (Macbeth 1.5.41) Desire and Performance Before we
pursue those areas of experience to which the quotations point, we need to draw
attention to the fact that this chapter opens with sexuality seen from an ...
Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard, 1994
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from
the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up th'
access and passage to remorse That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake
my ...
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSEX»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
unsex is used in the context of the following news items.
How Shakespeare invented 'unfriend' 400 years before Facebook
He told an audience Shakespeare was particularly fond of using the prefix "un", such as "unshout", "uncurse" and Lady Macbeth requesting: "Unsex me". «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
From Cannes: "Macbeth" a Fresh Take
... along with the script's heavy trimming, might upset Shakespeare purists—though famous soliloquies, such as that containing the famous line “Unsex me here,” ... «Harvard Crimson, May 15»
Get hype for Michael Fassbender as Macbeth with these new photos
There's also a photo of Cotillard's Lady Macbeth looking rather vulnerable and feminine — an important way to see her amid her cry that spirits “unsex me here” ... «HitFix, Apr 15»
Manhattan Shakespeare Project's MACBETH Begins 4/1
Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Manhattan's All-Female Shakespeare Company, presents MACBETH: The Unsex Me Here Project, directed by Amanda ... «Broadway World, Mar 15»
Postscript: Efua Dorkenoo, 1949-2014
But women are not born longing to be unsexed, or to unsex their daughters. Shame isn't inherited, like dark hair—which is why the feminist argument has been ... «The New Yorker, Oct 14»
For Starters, 'Unsex' the Birth Certificate
Perhaps an important place to start eliminating those fixed notions would be to "unsex" the birth certificate. We might then allow our children to be full humans ... «New York Times, Oct 14»
Circumcision is just male genital mutilation
... public misinformation campaign hatched and funded by donor countries to dismast and unsex Zambia men in the distant hope of reducing HIV/AIDS. «Zambian Watchdog, Oct 14»
Witches' Brew
Lady Macbeth was played with verve by Lindsay Hope Pearlman; her delivery of “unsex me here,” spread-eagled on her back, might reasonably have been ... «The New Yorker, Sep 14»
The wonder years: a journey to independence
Start with “unsex me here”. No sniggering; you'll all sit there until someone owns up; being the class clown won't get you to university, Evans; geometry is not ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»
MKA: Unsex Me
Presented as part of MKA's Hyprtxt Festival, Unsex Me looks at Lady Macbeth's famed monologue (“unsex me here”) and through a queer lens that investigates ... «Aussie Theatre, Jun 14»
