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Disability And The Characterization Of Katherine In The Taming Of The Shrew, Rachel Hile
Disability And The Characterization Of Katherine In The Taming Of The Shrew, Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
Despite numerous studies of the origins and meanings of Katherine's shrewishness in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, no scholar has analyzed the role of disability in Katherine's feelings of alienation and her ultimate transformation. In the wooing scene, we learn by indirection that Katherine has a limp through the references to the way she walks. This article analyzes the references to Katherine's limp in adaptations of the play during the 17th and 18th centuries, considering the significance of retaining these references even when stage productions of the plays have not included representation of a disabled Katherine. The article then …
The Spanish Tragedy As Intertext For Orhan Pamuk's Kar (Snow), Rachel Hile
The Spanish Tragedy As Intertext For Orhan Pamuk's Kar (Snow), Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
In Kar (2002; English version Snow, 2004), Orhan Pamuk uses the genre of early modern English revenge tragedy, specifically Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, to emphasize the theme of revenge and to illuminate his ideas about women's agency within Islamic culture. Through his departures from the generic expectations of revenge tragedy, Pamuk conveys a sense of the moral complexity of the many acts of revenge in the novel. In another important alteration of this intertext, during the play-within-the-novel performance of The Spanish Tragedy, Kadife, who plays the Bel-imperia role, goes “off script” by not committing suicide on …