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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2005  
         
  Article:   FROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO JOHN WEBSTER. CONSIDERATIONS UPON A BEDCHAMBER.

Authors:  MIHAELA MUDURE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This essay is a comparison between the famous bedroom scenes in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and John Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi”. The bedroom is an intimate space, a space of the pleasure considered immoral by some male characters of these tragedies (Hamlet or Ferdinand, the brother of the Duchess of Malfi) who think they are entitled to ascribe to themselves the right and the capacity of censorship with regard to the behaviour and the morals of the others. But the bedroom is also the space where women (Gertrud and the Duchess of Malfi) reveal their qualities as responsible political factors and carriers of imminent modernity.  
         
     
         
         
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