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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... tragedies , and the only sem- blance of a reply is Hamlet's : " The body is with the King , but the King is not with the body " ( IV.ii. 28–29 ) . The King is not with the body : Hamlet tells us that loss is perma- nent . The riddle ...
... tragedies , and the only sem- blance of a reply is Hamlet's : " The body is with the King , but the King is not with the body " ( IV.ii. 28–29 ) . The King is not with the body : Hamlet tells us that loss is perma- nent . The riddle ...
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... tragedies , its destruction , and finally its qualified restoration in the romances . I discuss the tragedies only in passing ; full consideration of them would require another book . 12 I do not intend to propose some new subgenre or ...
... tragedies , its destruction , and finally its qualified restoration in the romances . I discuss the tragedies only in passing ; full consideration of them would require another book . 12 I do not intend to propose some new subgenre or ...
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... tragedies . See “ The Jacobean Shakespeare : Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies " in Jacobean Theater , ed . John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris , Stratford - upon - Avon Studies 1 139 NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR.
... tragedies . See “ The Jacobean Shakespeare : Some Observations on the Construction of the Tragedies " in Jacobean Theater , ed . John Russell Brown and Bernard Harris , Stratford - upon - Avon Studies 1 139 NOTES TO CHAPTER FOUR.
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