12. Knight, The Wheel of Fire, 47; Roy, "War and Manliness,"108-10.
13. Foucault, Power/Knowledge, 90.
14. Machiavelli, The Arte of Warre. I have modernized the spelling and
punctuation of this 1560 translation by Peter Whitehorne.
15. Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture, 7-15.
16. Elton, "Shakespeare's Ulysses,"98-100; Dollimore, Radical Tragedy, 42-43.
17. Girard, Violence and the Sacred, 51.
18. Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 96-113.
19. Pitkin, Fortune Is a Woman, 25; Elshtain, Public Man, Private
Woman, 94.
20.In "The Politics of Desire," Girard suggests that Pandarus exploits
Helen's "erotic prestige" to promote the affair between Troilus and a "bovaryesque" Cressida whom Pandarus manipulates into desiring what she
believes Helen desires. In focusing on the "mimetic rivalry" of the male
characters, Girard neglects the possibility I wish to bring out here: that
Helen is Cressida's model for a role in which she would be less vulnerable
to the inconsistency of male desire.
21. Yoder, "'Sons and Daughters,'"20.
22. Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa, 82.
23. Joplin, "The Voice of the Shuttle,"40.
24.The recovery of the subtext is problematic, and this speech has often
been interpreted as capitulation tout court. Still, the speech is hardly comprehensible, much less performable, without uncovering some sort of subtext, the most plausible of which, I believe, denies the patriarchal text its
traditional hegemony.
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