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Marlowe - Dido, Queen of Carthage (1586?) - Coggle Diagram
Marlowe - Dido, Queen of Carthage (1586?)
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1.1.: "Come, gentle Ganymede, and play wtith me / I love thee well, say Juno what she will" (1-2)
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Using Act 4 and 5, what are some particular stage moments that might complicate, challenge, or extend our reading of misogyny and gendered forms of subordination in Dido?
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Dido as Girlboss
4.4: her monologue to command space, kidnap his son? She literally commands the stage; people listen;
is this power? forms of hysteria? a monstrous inversion of gendered power (where gender tells you more about social position than biology)? Approximating male power? Exposing a double standard?
puts the agency and onus back on Aneas: "It is Aneas calls Aeneas hence" (5.1.132) -- pulling no punches
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