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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... tragedy – Horatio , Edgar , Malcolm , Octavius Caesar , Prince Escalus - all stress the need for a return to a more normal mode of life . The life of the society is altered by the tragic deaths , but cannot cease or die with the dead ...
... tragedy – Horatio , Edgar , Malcolm , Octavius Caesar , Prince Escalus - all stress the need for a return to a more normal mode of life . The life of the society is altered by the tragic deaths , but cannot cease or die with the dead ...
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... tragedy . At the same time it is also emblematic of their failure to attain ' maturity ' - or ' identity ' - or a ' healthy person- ality ' in the context of a specific , created , dramatic situation . Like Erikson , Bruno Bettelheim ...
... tragedy . At the same time it is also emblematic of their failure to attain ' maturity ' - or ' identity ' - or a ' healthy person- ality ' in the context of a specific , created , dramatic situation . Like Erikson , Bruno Bettelheim ...
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... tragedy , by F. M. Cornford to Attic comedy , and by other scholars to such diverse dramatic survivals as the European Mummers ' Play and the Punch - and - Judy show . 35 Murray took a - further step , suggesting that ritual origins lay ...
... tragedy , by F. M. Cornford to Attic comedy , and by other scholars to such diverse dramatic survivals as the European Mummers ' Play and the Punch - and - Judy show . 35 Murray took a - further step , suggesting that ritual origins lay ...
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... tragedy by the duel , the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt , and the banishment of Romeo , the same behavior leads to a quite different result . Again the Nurse has been abroad , and again she returns , rambles and replies confusedly ...
... tragedy by the duel , the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt , and the banishment of Romeo , the same behavior leads to a quite different result . Again the Nurse has been abroad , and again she returns , rambles and replies confusedly ...
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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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