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- Title
The Dagger is the Pen: Violence and Writing in Lessing's Emilia Galotti.
- Authors
McAllister, Grant P.
- Abstract
The article critiques the play "Emilia Galotti," by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The author says the play presents a violent and disturbing image which draws critical attention from the expectators. The author points out that the violence in the play defines the play's aesthetic program and that the play's male voice is unstable. He adds that in most part of the play, men strive to possess, penetrate, and inscribe the female body physically and figuratively as a means of ensuring their domination.
- Subjects
EMILIA Galotti (Theatrical production); CRITICISM; LESSING, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; VIOLENCE in the theater
- Publication
Seminar -- A Journal of Germanic Studies, 2008, Vol 44, Issue 4, p395
- ISSN
0037-1939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/seminar.44.4.395