Abstract
Summary This reading of the woman's part in Shakespearean tragedy explores the extent to which the role of the passive heroine sexualises a critical conflict in the fabric of Jacobean society. Models of submissive femininity in Elizabethan and Jacobean courtesy manuals provide an exaggerated version of Bakhtin's description of the dialogic process, in which the meaning of a conversation is understood in the context of the hearer's conceptual environment. This process is echoed in feminist critical approaches to Shakespearean tragedy, which reject the silence and passivity of the heroine as symptomatic of a destructive male vision of feminine virtue.
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