Empowering the Voice:The Reconstruction of Female Discourse from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Updike's Gertrude and Claudius

• 作者: 黄晓露
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（下）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（4）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 210-211,221
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

There are abound with the deconstruction of classic works in recent years, among which Updike's Gertrude and Claudi-us is undoubtedly an impressive one. Updike completed the antecedent part of Shakespeare's play Hamlt. Noticeably, this new pre-quel of Hamlet, from the mindset of female, takes Queen Gertrude as the narrative center and airs Gertrude's psychological states to break the confinement of female discourse in Shakespeare's plays. Hinged on Foucault's theory of power and discourse, this pa-per attempts to analyze how Updike manifests women's endeavors to assert preserve and construct their discourse, break the apha-sia and even challenge the voice of male authority by elucidating the interactions between Queen Gertrude and other crucial male roles in the full text in order to navigate readers in-depth to scrutinize the changes of women's social status in different era.