“Unsex me here”: The Inordinate Criminalization of Female Violent Offenders in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, King Lear, and Titus Andronicus

Senior Capstone Experience by Annalie Buscarino ’21 Submitted to the Departments of English and Sociology Advised by Dr. Rachel Durso and Dr. Courtney Rydel Description: Shakespeare’s female violent offenders suffer from punishments that occur offstage, threaten their femininities, and double as criminal acts. However, interdisciplinary scholarship situates their identities in a liminal position between female embodied criminality (criminality resulting from…