Yedi Aralık Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi

Yazarlar: ["Gülten SİLİNDİR KERETLİ"]

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Woman in distress,Pathos,Pathetic tragedy,Restoration drama,She-tragedy

Özet: During the last quarter of the seventeenth century, well before the opening of Nicholas Rowe’s (the first editor of works of Shakespeare) theatrical career, women acquire an extraordinary prominence in the drama. Many of the most celebrated and influential plays, including those of Thomas Otway, John Banks, and Thomas Southerne, depend on the designation of a female protagonist. In this paper Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserved (1682), John Banks’ Anna Bullen, Vertue Betrayed (1682) and Thomas Southerne’s Fatal Marriage are going to be analyzed within the framework of pathetic tragedy. These tragedies were successfully acted by Elizabeth Barry, who was a successful comedian depicting a variety of Restoration comedy heroines throughout her career, however, her greatest impact on Restoration drama was as a tragic actress. Her capacity for projecting pathos was an inspiration to playwrights, Thomas Otway and Thomas Southerne in the three famous tragic roles they wrote for her: Monimia in Otway's The Orphan (1680), Belvidera in Otway's Venice Preserved (1682), and Isabella in Southerne's The Fatal Marriage (1694). Keywords: woman in distress, pathos, pathetic tragedy, restoration drama, she-tragedy

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