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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... metaphors : the symbolic death of the child , his incubation in darkness , and his rebirth or resurrection into a newborn state where he must learn to speak again , receive a new name and be incorporated into a new society or social ...
... metaphors : the symbolic death of the child , his incubation in darkness , and his rebirth or resurrection into a newborn state where he must learn to speak again , receive a new name and be incorporated into a new society or social ...
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... metaphor for the rhythmic relationship of the two states : once again the initiate must cere- monially depart from childhood in order to assume his new status as an adult . The concept of a pattern of rites that accompany - and thera ...
... metaphor for the rhythmic relationship of the two states : once again the initiate must cere- monially depart from childhood in order to assume his new status as an adult . The concept of a pattern of rites that accompany - and thera ...
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... metaphorical experience of death and rebirth . But the life crisis that provokes that ex- perience occurs not as a ... metaphors for individual rites , as in a phrase like ' green youth ' ; conversely terms from the cycle of individual ...
... metaphorical experience of death and rebirth . But the life crisis that provokes that ex- perience occurs not as a ... metaphors for individual rites , as in a phrase like ' green youth ' ; conversely terms from the cycle of individual ...
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... metaphor of the glass in some detail and take note of such other human mirrors as Hotspur and Hamlet . But what is of chief interest here is the sense that Posthumus is a man for all seasons . To the youngest , to the more mature and ...
... metaphor of the glass in some detail and take note of such other human mirrors as Hotspur and Hamlet . But what is of chief interest here is the sense that Posthumus is a man for all seasons . To the youngest , to the more mature and ...
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Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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