Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare : : The Debt Never Promised / / Fred B. Tromly.
Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. W...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Texts
- Introduction: Interpreting Shakespeare's Sons - Ambivalence, Rescue, and Revenge
- 1 Paternal Authority and Filial Autonomy in Shakespeare's England
- 2 Henry VI, Part One: Prototypical Beginnings - The Two John Talbots
- 3 Richard II: Patrilineal Inheritance and the Generation Gap
- 4 Henry IV, Part One: 'Deep Defiance' and the Rebel Prince
- 5 Henry IV, Part Two: The Prince Becomes the King (with a Note on Henry V)
- 6 Hamlet: Notes from Underground - Paternal and Filial Subterfuge
- 7 King Lear: The Usurpation of Fathers - and of Fathers and Sons
- 8 Macbeth and the Late Plays: The Disappearance of Ambivalent Sons
- 9 Biographical Coda: William Shakespeare, Son of John Shakespeare
- Appendix 1: Shakespearean Fathers and Sons in Edward III
- Appendix 2: Thomas Plume's Anecdote: The Merry- Cheeked, Jest-Cracking John Shakespeare, Sir John Mennes, and Sir John Falstaff
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index