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1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Fathers are central to the drama of Shakespeare's time: they are revered, even sacred, yet they are also flawed human beings who feature as obstacles in plays of all genres. In Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Tom MacFaul examines how fathers are paradoxical and almost anomalous characters on the English Renaissance stage. Starting as figures of confident authority in early Elizabethan drama, their scope for action becomes gradually more restricted, until by late Jacobean drama they have accepted the limitations of their power. MacFaul argues that this process points towards a crisis of patriarchal authority in wider contemporary culture. While Shakespeare's plays provide a key insight into these shifts, this book explores the dramatic culture of the period more widely to present the ways in which Shakespeare's work differed from that of his contemporaries while both sharing and informing their artistic and ideological preoccupations"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Fathers.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Fathers. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Fathers in literature.
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Fathers in literature. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacFaul, Tom. Problem fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012 9781107028944 (DLC) 2012015668 (OCoLC)786003184 |
| ISBN |
9781139776967 (electronic book) |
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1139776967 (electronic book) |
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9781139237178 (electronic book) |
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1139237179 (electronic book) |
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9781107028944 |
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1107028949 |
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9781283714778 |
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1283714779 |
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