Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet VIRAGO

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• The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen.
• She was derided as an eccentric scold, a virago, and (in the words of one newspaper editor) "a literary wild-cat from the backwoods".
• Thus virago joined pejoratives such as termagant, mannish, amazonian and shrew to describe women who acted aggressively or like men.
• Fulk read Modthryth in terms of the limiting tamed virago motif, it has been suggested that this reflects preconceptions among scholars.
• The painting depicts a virago, Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell, and is currently held and exhibited at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp.
• The Taming of the Shrew has itself led to various modern, loose adaptations to current societal views in differing Western and Eastern industrialized societies, while retaining the stock character and the underlying theme of consequences of female disagreeableness, but often giving the "shrew" much more agency, and portraying some "shrewish" traits in a positive light, blending with the stock character of the virago.

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