Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.

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  • Author(s): Alfar, Cristina León (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Social Research. Fall2019, Vol. 86 Issue 3, p789-819. 31p.
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    • 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.