Coming of Age in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2013 M04 15 - 248 pages Marjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--"coming of age"--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are: separation from parent or sibling in preparation for sexual love and the choice of husband or wife; the use of names and nicknames as a sign of individual exploits or status; virginity, sexual initiation and the acceptance of sexual maturity, childbearing and parenthood; and, finally, attitudes toward death and dying. |
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... literary acumen , judgment and patience have contributed much to what may be useful in these pages . Margaret Ferguson , Penelope Laurans and Barbara Packer also offered aid and comfort at crucial times ; to all these friends and ...
... literary acumen , judgment and patience have contributed much to what may be useful in these pages . Margaret Ferguson , Penelope Laurans and Barbara Packer also offered aid and comfort at crucial times ; to all these friends and ...
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... literary or pictorial artifacts ; More's ' pageauntes ' were both , since verses of his own composition accompanied each painted panel . But as we have already seen , interest in the ages of man extended beyond artists and poets to ...
... literary or pictorial artifacts ; More's ' pageauntes ' were both , since verses of his own composition accompanied each painted panel . But as we have already seen , interest in the ages of man extended beyond artists and poets to ...
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... literary critics have already made about the plays . Literary and anthropological schemes agree , and lead us to very similar insights about stages in human development . Recent work in anthropology has applied van Gennep's con- cept of ...
... literary critics have already made about the plays . Literary and anthropological schemes agree , and lead us to very similar insights about stages in human development . Recent work in anthropology has applied van Gennep's con- cept of ...
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... literary scholars . Van Gennep observes that initiation rites are rites of separation from the asexual world followed by rites of incorporation into a world of sexuality - and at the same time into a single - sex age group . The young ...
... literary scholars . Van Gennep observes that initiation rites are rites of separation from the asexual world followed by rites of incorporation into a world of sexuality - and at the same time into a single - sex age group . The young ...
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... literary critics may well find uncomfor- table . For example , he cites with approval Marie Jahoda's defini- tion of a ' healthy ' personality in an adult : ' a healthy personality actively masters his environment , shows a certain ...
... literary critics may well find uncomfor- table . For example , he cites with approval Marie Jahoda's defini- tion of a ' healthy ' personality in an adult : ' a healthy personality actively masters his environment , shows a certain ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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