Subject of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First published in 1985 <i>The Subject of Tragedy</i> takes the drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the starting point for an analysis of the differential identities of man and woman. Catherine Belsey charts in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts the production in the Renaissance of a meaning for subjectivity that is identifiably modern. The subject of liberal humanism – self-determining free origin of language choice and action – is highlighted as the product of a specific period in which man was the subject to which woman was related. </p>