https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59223 2026-04-15T18:57:50Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59304 Title: About our contributors [Antae Journal, 7(1)] Abstract: Short biographies of the contributors in this issue. 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59248 Title: Selected writings Authors: Martin, John Abstract: A selection of short works by John Martin. Includes poems: "The Performance", "More than animals", and "Mix and Match", and scripts "Ars Fingendi" and "You Are Certain Who You Are". 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59247 Title: The technique of the play-within-the-play and the empowerment of female audiences in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Authors: Zouidi, Nizar Abstract: The dialogic nature of the dramatic art allows the female characters of Shakespeare to challenge the stereotypes advocated by their dominant culture. Chaperoned and silenced, the Renaissance female audience may find solace in the freedom of the female characters of Shakespeare, whose plays deconstruct the common image of women by showing that they are never allowed to speak for themselves. The play-within-the-play technique allows the female characters of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream a rare opportunity of assuming the role of both audience and critic. This allows them to challenge the male characters’ representational hegemony from a less vulnerable position than that of the character. This article demonstrates how Shakespeare uses his fictitious female audiences to address and critique the dominant patriarchal myths about the nature of women. 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59246 Title: Permission for brutality Authors: Woock, Elizabeth Abstract: This study examines how medievalist comics insist on their historical accuracy (implying that they represent authentic facts, rather than simulacra) and routinely present brutality and invisibility as linked with an authentic Middle Ages while also restricting fair representation to the world of fantasy. Witches and pagan magical beings are contextualised in a medievalist story world, and the patina of historicity of the story world dictates not only the presence or absence of these types of characters, but further predicates the representation of females and queer characters in general, especially their parts in the violence of the medievalised story world. While the magical beings are clearly simulacra, authors and readers seem to overlook the fact that the “brutal” Middle Ages are also simulacra. The positioning of equality and the presence of queer folk squarely in the fantastical story world, beside ostentatiously fantastical beings, creates a correlation for the readers and authors that equality and representation are, too, only simulacra. 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z