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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... and change , and to suggest the relevance of such patterns to our understanding of maturity . As a young man , Sir Thomas More designed a ' fyne paynted clothe ' for his father's house which combined elements of INTRODUCTION 3.
... and change , and to suggest the relevance of such patterns to our understanding of maturity . As a young man , Sir Thomas More designed a ' fyne paynted clothe ' for his father's house which combined elements of INTRODUCTION 3.
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... maturity ( ' I spake as a child ' ) may once more remind us of Jaques's seven ages , and it is clear that changes in speech , or even the acquisi- tion of entire new languages , are frequently found in the initia- tion patterns of ...
... maturity ( ' I spake as a child ' ) may once more remind us of Jaques's seven ages , and it is clear that changes in speech , or even the acquisi- tion of entire new languages , are frequently found in the initia- tion patterns of ...
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... maturity is hardly the exclusive province of the anthropologists . The psychologist Erik Erikson has devoted much of his career to exploring what he was among the first to term the ' identity crisis ' in an individual's psychic ...
... maturity is hardly the exclusive province of the anthropologists . The psychologist Erik Erikson has devoted much of his career to exploring what he was among the first to term the ' identity crisis ' in an individual's psychic ...
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... maturity ' - or ' identity ' - or a ' healthy person- ality ' in the context of a specific , created , dramatic situation . Like Erikson , Bruno Bettelheim addresses himself to the ' psychological problems of growing up ' , 26 and does ...
... maturity ' - or ' identity ' - or a ' healthy person- ality ' in the context of a specific , created , dramatic situation . Like Erikson , Bruno Bettelheim addresses himself to the ' psychological problems of growing up ' , 26 and does ...
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... maturity is not unlike Erikson's epigenetic cycle ; and it may be worthwhile to quote his central argument at some length . In order to master the psychological problems of growing up- overcoming narcissistic disappointments , oedipal ...
... maturity is not unlike Erikson's epigenetic cycle ; and it may be worthwhile to quote his central argument at some length . In order to master the psychological problems of growing up- overcoming narcissistic disappointments , oedipal ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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