The paradigms of conflict for spirited women in drama often differ from those of comparable male heroes. As a character active in determining her own fate, the spirited woman must choose between self-realization in the private sphere, the traditional stronghold or prison of women, and the public sphere, an area of particular peril for women. In either case the hero's identity is established largely by resistence to or direct defiance of the behavioral norms for her sex.
| ISBN: | 9780820400334 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1983 |
| Author: | Julie D Prandi |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 146 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. Series I, Germanic Languages and Literature |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: plays and playwrights |