Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. "Macfaul argues convincingly that the presentation of fathers as central figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama reflects a cultural crisis of patriarchal authority in England during these periods....Connecting and expanding on problem fathers in early modern drama, this interesting, wide-ranging study is well-researched." --Choice Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom MacFaul, Tom (University of Oxford) Macfaul, MacFaul Tom
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107028944
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02894-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights