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THESIS ABSTRACT THE TROUBLE WITH GENDER IN OTHELLO: A BUTLERIAN READING OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE Jeri Lynn Peters Master of Arts, August 4, 2007 (BS., Troy University Dothan, 2005) 47 Pages Directed by Constance Relihan By applying the theories of gender as performance developed by feminist theorist Judith Butler in her 1990 work, Gender Trouble, to the canonical text of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, this thesis seeks to prove that the primary causes of the action of the play are the flaws in Desdemona and Othello’s gender performance, as well as Iago’s inability to tolerate these flaws. iv
Acknowledgments In Honor of Fred Feagin The author would like to thank her husband, Kevin, and sons, Dean and Spencer, or their patience, love, and support during the writing of this thesis, and her father for teaching her to love Shakespeare. She would also like to thank the many friends who supported her during the writing process, most particularly Steven Page and Heather Crocker. v
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Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE
Page 9 and 10: If, as Butler writes, there is no p
Page 11 and 12: Another benefit of this type of rea
Page 13 and 14: and Juliet show what happens after
Page 15 and 16: legitimacy of the authority, […]
Page 17 and 18: For Butler, the distinction between
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Page 23 and 24: Therefore, the fact of Desdemona’
Page 25 and 26: her husband. However, there can be
Page 27 and 28: Section Two: Othello in the Matrix
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Page 31 and 32: Nor to comply with heat, the young
Page 33 and 34: and leave her home in Venice for a
Page 35 and 36: is the threat to his gender perform
Page 37 and 38: fictive revenge schemes in the west
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Page 43 and 44: of a possible agenda of enforcement
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