UID:
almahu_9948208796302882
Format:
XVII, 224 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1999.
ISBN:
9781349150472
Content:
In a harsh, uncaring world the family is valued as a source of warmth and stability. At the same time, we are increasingly compelled to recognize that families can be oppressive both physically and emotionally. Now for the first time in paperback, Catherine Belsey's richly illustrated account of Shakespeare's plays, in conjunction with early modern images of Adam and Eve, locates the construction of family values in cultural history and politics. She shows the pleasures and anxieties generated in the period by the domestication of desire, parental love and cruelty and the relations between siblings - and discusses how Shakespeare's plays explore these themes.
Note:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading Cultural History -- Desire in the Golden World: Love's Labour's Lost and As you Like It -- Marriage: Imogen's Bedchamber -- Parenthood: Hermione's Statue -- Sibling Rivalry: Hamlet and the First Murder -- Postscript: Passion and Interpretation -- Notes -- Index.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333770849
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349150496
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781349150489
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780333801840
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-15047-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15047-2
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