Word: womanhood
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...Yale Women of the Ivy League offers no more than obscure references to puberty anxiety, body image and isolation. Except for two or three poems which do not deal with the anguished plight of womanhood, these women tell us that being female means being miserable, misled and misunderstood...
...play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people in education, mental health and the arts became known as "the First Lady...
...conveying the confusion and heartache of postpubescent romance, becoming more engrossed in his role as the scene progresses. Forsythe, however, seems wholly incapable of playing a teenager. The effect is somewhat ridiculous, as it appears that an adult woman is begging a self-conscious youth to initiate her into womanhood. In addition, the scene is so devoid of real emotion that by its conclusion one has to wonder why Luba has included Paul as one of the important men in her life...
...with a credible range of emotions to complement the metamorphoses undergone by her character as she progresses from shy, introverted, young scholar to innocent bride to the ruler of England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading Plato in bed, demurely clad in a nightgown that laces up to her chin. The next evening, however, after her first tryst...
Even the text itself has undergone significant alteration at Brustein's hands. To highlight Middleton's thoroughly contemporary theme of oppressed womanhood, one third of the original text has been excised--including the entire subplot written by Middleton's collaborator William Rowley, dealing with feigned madness and giving the play its title character...