Tom Macfaul

Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9781316505274
• ISBN-10: 1316505278
• Artikelnr.: 44263633

Autorenporträt

Tom MacFaul is Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in English at Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2007), Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England (2010) and many articles on Renaissance poetry and drama. He is also the co-editor of Tottel's Miscellany (2011) with Amanda Holton.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Staying fathers in early Elizabethan drama: Gorboduc to The Spanish Tragedy
3. Identification and impasse in drama of the 1590s: Henry VI to Hamlet
4. Limiting the father in the 1600s: the wake of Hamlet and King Lear
5. After The Tempest
Conclusion.