Androgynous Women in Man and Superman and Romeo and Juliet  

作　　者：伊惠娟 YI Hui-juan

机构地区：[1]苏州大学外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2018年第23期204-205,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Being an established playwright,Bernard Shaw is also famous for his flippant denunciations of Shakespeare as a literary saint.Their works are often found to bear similarities to some degree.This article illuminates the androgynous women in two plays seem to have nothing in common,Man and Superman by Shaw and Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.It is argued that these two protagonists,Juliet and Ann Whitefield,are endowed with androgynous mind by taking initiative in marriage while remaining femininity as well.Being an established playwright,Bernard Shaw is also famous for his flippant denunciations of Shakespeare as a literary saint.Their works are often found to bear similarities to some degree.This article illuminates the androgynous women in two plays seem to have nothing in common,Man and Superman by Shaw and Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.It is argued that these two protagonists,Juliet and Ann Whitefield,are endowed with androgynous mind by taking initiative in marriage while remaining femininity as well.

关 键 词：MAN and SUPERMAN ROMEO and Juliet WOMEN androgynous 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]