Shakespeare's DaughtersMcFarland, 28.06.2010 - 191 Seiten The father-daughter relationship was one that Shakespeare explored again and again. His typical pattern featured a middle-aged or older man, usually a widower, with an adolescent daughter who had spent most of her life under her father's control, protected in his house. The plays usually begin when the daughter is on the verge of womanhood and eager to assert her own identity and make her own decisions, especially in matters of the heart, even if it means going against her father's wishes. This work considers Capulet in Romeo and Juliet as an inept father to Juliet and Prospero in The Tempest as an able mentor to Miranda; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona in Othello as daughters who rebel against their fathers; Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Ophelia in Hamlet as daughters who acquiesce; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Goneril and Regan in King Lear as daughters who cunningly play the good girl role; Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Viola in Twelfth Night and Rosalind in As You Like It as daughters who act in their fathers' places; and Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cordelia in Lear as daughters who forgive and heal. |
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... play scripts. Finally and most importantly, I want to celebrate the memory of my own father, Spiro Saros, and express my thankfulness to Emily, Kate, and Abby, who, individually and together, continue to bless me with the invaluable ...
... play after play: that between father and daughter. Juliet and Capulet, Miranda and Pros- pero, Ophelia and Polonius, Rosalind and Duke Senior, Perdita and Leontes, Cordelia, Regan, Goneril, and Lear — the variety and vitality of ...
... play after play is that no matter how well-intentioned the father or how seemingly ideal the suitor, if the girl's heart is not engaged, the match cannot work. This truth emerges in the comedies as well as the tragedies. To Lord Capulet ...
... play so convincingly, while such creations of his contemporaries as Thomas Kyd's Bel-Imperia and John Webster's Duchess of Malfi usually appear only in the confines of study? One explanation is their three-dimensionality: Shakespeare's ...
... play for someone who has lost a wife or child or seen friends go through a painful divorce; Juliet's suicide is agonizing to viewers who have not only lived through adolescence but, like the senior Capulets or the Nurse and the Friar ...
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Daughters Who Rebel Hermia A Midsummer Nights Dream Jessica The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona Othello | 35 |
Hero Much Ado About Nothing Lavinia Titus Andronicus and Ophelia Hamlet | 69 |
The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear | 93 |
Portia The Merchant of Venice Viola Twelfth Night and Rosalind As You Like It | 125 |
Marina Pericles Perdita The Winters Tale and Cordelia King Lear | 151 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Index | 181 |