Femininity

Fool dehumanising women

“Truth’s a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out when the Lady Brach may stand by the fire and stink”

Lear degrading goneril

• “Thou marble-hearted fiend” Lear

• More hideous ... than the sea-monster"

• “To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility” Lear A1, S4 

• “Create her child of spleen” Lear A1, S4 

Lear maternal imagery

“O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!” lear A2, S4

“I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb”

• linking femininity to madness

Albany’s description of the sister's

“Tiger not daughters” Albany  A4, S2 

gentleman about Cordelia stressing her femininity

“Then an ample tear trilled down her delicate cheek. It seemed she was a queen over her passion”

Goneril chosing Edmund over everything

“I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me” Goneril A5, S1