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Domination And Defiance : Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare /

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the relationship between fathers and daughters, for this primal bond of domination and defiance structures twenty-one of his comedies, tragedies, and romances. In a conflict that is at once social and interpersonal, Shakespeare's fathers demand hierarchical...

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Autor principal: Dreher, Diane, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, [1986]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: A Psychological Perspective; Male Development and the Crisis of Middle Life; Female Development and the Crisis of Intimacy; TWO: The Renaissance Background; The Traditional View: Hierarchical Obedience; The Progressive View: The Personal Bond; Marriage Laws in the Renaissance; Love and Marriage: The Dramatic Perspective; THREE: The Paternal Role in Transition; The Reactionary Fathers; The Mercenary Fathers; The Egocentric Fathers; The Jealous Fathers; Lear: A Father in Turmoil; FOUR: Dominated Daughters.
  • Ophelia: Fearful DominationHero: Slandered Innocence; Desdemona: Love's Sweet Victim; FIVE: Defiant Daughters; Romantic Love and Comic Defiance; Selfish Defiance: Revenge and Domination; Defiance of Convention: The Taming of the Shrew; SIX: Androgynous Daughters; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; All's Well That Ends Well; SEVEN: Redemptive Love and Wisdom; Pericles; The Winter's Tale; Cymbeline; The Wisdom of Prospero; EIGHT: Beyond Domination and Defiance; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index.