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Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare : The Debt Never Promised /

Through careful scrutiny of word and deed, the scholarship in Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare reveals the complex attitude Shakespeare's sons harbour towards their fathers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tromly, Fred B., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2010
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : interpreting Shakespeare's sons : ambivalence, rescue, and revenge
  • Paternal authority and filial autonomy in Shakespeare's England
  • Henry VI, part one : prototypical beginnings : the two John Talbots
  • Richard II : patrilineal inheritance and the generation gap
  • Henry IV, part one : Deep defiance and the rebel prince
  • Henry IV, part two : the prince becomes the king, with a note on Henry V
  • Hamlet : notes from the underground : paternal and filial subterfuge
  • King Lear : the usurpation of fathers, and of fathers and sons
  • Macbeth and the late plays : the disappearance of ambivalent sons
  • Biographical coda : William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare
  • Appendix 1 : Shakespearean fathers and sons in Edward III
  • Appendix 2 : Thomas Plume's anecdote : the merry-cheeked, jest-cracking John Shakespeare, Sir John Mennes, and Sir John Falstaff.