The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands

ISBN-13: 9781349396122 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 219 str.

L. Hopkins

Opis

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Shakespeare and Contemporary Marriage - Marriage as Comic Closure - Marriage in the Middle - What Makes a Marriage - The Fate of the Nation: Marriage in History Plays - Roman Marriage - Tragic Marriage - The Wedding of the Daughter: Marriage in the Last Plays - Conclusion - Notes - Index

O autorze

Lisa Hopkins