Family Dramas
Family Dramas

Author: Gwyn Daniel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0429812396

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Most of Shakespeare’s tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and dialogues between people on stage, linking their intimate emotional worlds to wider social and political contexts. Since family relationships absorb and enact social ideologies, their conflicts often expose the conflicts that all ideologies contain. The complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of Shakespeare’s portrayals of individuals and their relationships are brought to life, while wider power structures and social discourses are shown to reach into the heart of intimate relationships and personal identity. Surveying relevant literature from Shakespeare studies, the book introduces the ideas behind the family systems approach to literary criticism. Explorations of gender relationships feature particularly strongly in the analysis since it is within gender that intimacy and power most compellingly intersect and frequently collide. For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays
Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

Author: John Green

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2000-02-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780486409603

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Well-known scenes from "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," and 15 other popular plays. Summaries, selections from the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: Naseeb Shaheen

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9780874136777

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Analyzes the biblical references that Shakespeare makes in his plays, surveying the different English Bibles available to Shakespeare, and pointing out which of these he referred to most often (the King James version only appeared near the end of his career). Also examines biblical references found in literary source material used by Shakespeare to determine whether he used or adapted these or added others from his own memory; and what these allusions would have meant to audiences of the time.--From publisher description.

Shakespeare's Drama of Exile
Shakespeare's Drama of Exile

Author: J. Kingsley-Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-11-05

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1403938431

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Exile defines the Shakespearean canon, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen . This book traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England; the self-consciousness of exile as an amatory trope; and the discourses by which exile could be reshaped into comedy or tragedy. Across genres, Shakespeare's plays reveal a fascination with exile as the source of linguistic crisis, shaped by the utterance of that word 'Banished'.

Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Shakespeare and Lost Plays

Author: David McInnis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1108843263

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Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays
The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author: Vivian Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 100035010X

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What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.