CEMERS Talk: "Turning Fury" with guest speaker Benedict Robinson, Professor of English, Stony Brook University

This essay takes a phrase that surfaces twice in Webster?s The White Devil?in which two different angry women are dismissed by men as having ?turned Fury??as an invitation to think about the pervasive history of delegitimizing women?s anger built into the tradition of debates about anger going back to antiquity. That tradition was reactivated in the early seventeenth century by?among other thin...