Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

ISBN-13: 9781107028944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 268 str.

Tom MacFaul

Opis

Explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

Recenzje

'This study is compact, yet dense. Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama covers a wide swath of issues surrounding representations of father figures in early modern drama - paternal authority, historical contexts, genre development - and does so by surveying a large number of texts. Because of the range and depth of this study, Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama is sure to initiate wider critical conversations about the roles of fathers in early modern drama, and it may well prove a seminal text in Renaissance studies.' Kimberly G. Reigle, Journal of British Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Staying fathers in early Elizabethan drama: Gorboduc to The Spanish Tragedy; 3. Identification and impasse in drama of the 1590s: Henry VI to Hamlet; 4. Limiting the father in the 1600s: the wake of Hamlet and King Lear; 5. After The Tempest; Conclusion.