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Shakespeare's Daughters

2010-06-28 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010-06-28
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Daughters by : Sharon Hamilton

Download or read book Shakespeare's Daughters written by Sharon Hamilton. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father-daughter relationship was one that Shakespeare explored again and again. His typical pattern featured a middle-aged or older man, usually a widower, with an adolescent daughter who had spent most of her life under her father's control, protected in his house. The plays usually begin when the daughter is on the verge of womanhood and eager to assert her own identity and make her own decisions, especially in matters of the heart, even if it means going against her father's wishes. This work considers Capulet in Romeo and Juliet as an inept father to Juliet and Prospero in The Tempest as an able mentor to Miranda; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona in Othello as daughters who rebel against their fathers; Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Ophelia in Hamlet as daughters who acquiesce; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Goneril and Regan in King Lear as daughters who cunningly play the good girl role; Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Viola in Twelfth Night and Rosalind in As You Like It as daughters who act in their fathers' places; and Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cordelia in Lear as daughters who forgive and heal.

Shakespeare's Daughters

1910 Women
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Release : 1910
Genre : Women
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Daughters by : George Henry Trader

Download or read book Shakespeare's Daughters written by George Henry Trader. This book was released on 1910. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Herbal Bed

1999 Drama
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Release : 1999
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis The Herbal Bed by : Peter Whelan

Download or read book The Herbal Bed written by Peter Whelan. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: THE HERBAL BED is based on actual events that occurred in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 1613, when William Shakespeare's elder daughter Susanna Hall was publicly accused of having a sexual liaison with Rafe Smith, a married neighb

Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

2017-06-29 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-06-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters by : Oliver Ford Davies

Download or read book Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters written by Oliver Ford Davies. This book was released on 2017-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies, a former university lecturer and now an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and Olivier Award winner, has written an engaging and deeply researched study of a topic that has intrigued him from playing Capulet in 1967, King Lear in 2002, to Polonius in 2008.

King Lear

2008-04-18 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2008-04-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis King Lear by : Jeffrey Kahan

Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan. This book was released on 2008-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink

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