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- Title
Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.
- Authors
Alfar, Cristina León
- Abstract
The article discusses on the speaking truth to power as feminist ethics in "Richard III" play by William Shakespeare. Topics discussed include information on parrhesia which is a right of the citizen to correct the sovereign; loyalties of monarchy, kinship, marriage, and friendship in shakespeare's play; information on Queen Margaret's curses as part of a feminist ethics in which she becomes a parrhesiast, one who speaks truth to power as a right of all citizens, despite her violent and tyrannical past; and challenges for woman to commit herself to speaking the truth to have authority.
- Subjects
TRUTH; FEMINIST ethics; RICHARD III (Play : Shakespeare); AUTHORITY; PARRHESIA (The Greek word); BLESSING &; cursing in literature
- Publication
Social Research, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 3, p789
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article