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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... human development to the next.5 To this point we have been speaking of 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 ...
... human development to the next.5 To this point we have been speaking of 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 ...
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... human relations may indicate some striking new facts about patterns of development in Shakespeare's plays . It may be useful to take account of the concept of ' rites of passage ' , a term first applied by Arnold van Gennep to the ...
... human relations may indicate some striking new facts about patterns of development in Shakespeare's plays . It may be useful to take account of the concept of ' rites of passage ' , a term first applied by Arnold van Gennep to the ...
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... human development . Recent work in anthropology has applied van Gennep's con- cept of the threshold to both preliterate and modern societies , and extended it to secular as well as religious ritual . The anthro- pologist Mary Douglas ...
... human development . Recent work in anthropology has applied van Gennep's con- cept of the threshold to both preliterate and modern societies , and extended it to secular as well as religious ritual . The anthro- pologist Mary Douglas ...
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... human society - whether primitive or modern , experiential or fictive . For Turner and Douglas , as for van Gennep , the act of crossing the threshold - of becoming a ' marginal person ' or a ' liminary ' - is both a danger and an ...
... human society - whether primitive or modern , experiential or fictive . For Turner and Douglas , as for van Gennep , the act of crossing the threshold - of becoming a ' marginal person ' or a ' liminary ' - is both a danger and an ...
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... human development which is based upon self - knowledge . The stages through which the developing individual will - and must - pass are all predicated upon an apprehension ( conscious or uncon- scious ) of his own place in society . If ...
... human development which is based upon self - knowledge . The stages through which the developing individual will - and must - pass are all predicated upon an apprehension ( conscious or uncon- scious ) of his own place in society . If ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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