ENGL 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Christopher Beeston, Blind Experiment, Justiciability
11 Nov 2016
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Beeston, white, & rape: margaret white, a women raped by shakespeare"s troupe, perhaps went on to influencing the creation of measure for measure. The man, christopher beeston, she accused denied the crime and never ended up being charged. Although the governors believed her story, her story wasn"t justiciable. This isn"t the only case he"s implicated with sexual assault either. Makes any sentiments of proto-feminism in his plays fairly skeptical and ironical. That said he gives a voice to the traumatized subject in this play which is interesting. 1593: for a year, all the theatres in london became closed because any gathering of more than a couple of people became outlawed because of the plague. Shakespeare really investigated this subject in poems such as venus and. Also questioned whether it was possible to rape a man: for shakespeare, the woman"s body became a site of negotiating. The complaint: the complaint genre presented a woman talking about her past.
