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...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Lexington, KY :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1986]
|
Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.