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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 obedience while their daughters affirm the new, more personal values upheld by Renaissance humanists and Puritans. In her penetrating analysis of this compelling relationship, Diane Dreher examines the underlying psychological tensions as well as the changing concepts of marriage and the family during Sh |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Fathers
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Daughters
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Domestic drama, English -- History and criticism
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Fathers and daughters in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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Daughters in literature
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Domestic drama, English
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Fathers and daughters in literature
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Fathers in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813159171 |
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0813159172 |
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