Shakespeare's Restorations of the FatherDavid Sundelson argues that the development of Shakespeare's career and the plays themselves reveal patterns of concern with and conflict over parental authority, fraternal rivalry, homosexuality, and male and female sex roles. In particular, in his readings of the plays, he shows that the loss or weakness of a father -- figures at once attractive and perversely manipulative -- is central to Shakespeare's work. -- from book jacket. |
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... sense of Shakespeare's development as an imaginative movement into fatherhood , a shift from viewing the father from a child's perspective to identifying with him , and a sense that Shakespeare's development has the same three - part ...
... sense of Shakespeare's development as an imaginative movement into fatherhood , a shift from viewing the father from a child's perspective to identifying with him , and a sense that Shakespeare's development has the same three - part ...
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... sense of what might please his audience — but not the least of them , surely , is the chance to develop and explore this connection between “ king " and " father , " to present a political crisis as , in Norman Rabkin's words , " the an ...
... sense of what might please his audience — but not the least of them , surely , is the chance to develop and explore this connection between “ king " and " father , " to present a political crisis as , in Norman Rabkin's words , " the an ...
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... sense of a perverse desire is helpful , although vague . I want to define more precisely the advan- tages Richard finds in weakness , to map out the stages of his fall and the psychological meaning Shakespeare gives them . I will argue ...
... sense of a perverse desire is helpful , although vague . I want to define more precisely the advan- tages Richard finds in weakness , to map out the stages of his fall and the psychological meaning Shakespeare gives them . I will argue ...
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