Gullón Malmkvist, Ingrid Erika2024-05-202024-05-202022-06-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/13396This paper discusses the ways in which Mary Robinson‘s tragedy The Sicilian Lover, A Dramatic Poem challenges patriarchal oppression and calls for female resistance in eighteenth-century England. The aim of the work is to analyse the play from a historical feminist perspective by comparing it to two proto-feminist texts of the same period which are also examined here: Mary Wollstonecraft´s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) and Mary Robinson´s A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination, with Anecdotes (1799). The strategies of close reading, inductive reasoning and comparative analysis are used to reveal the underlying proto-feminist ideology of the play. The findings are reported accordingly and hope to prove useful for further related studies.enAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacionalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessproyecto fin de carrerapatriarchal oppressionfemale resistanceMary RobinsonThe Sicilian LoverMary Wollstonecrafthistorical feminist analysisGothic