Coming of Age in ShakespeareMarjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--"coming of age"--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are: separation from parent or sibling in preparation for sexual love and the choice of husband or wife; the use of names and nicknames as a sign of individual exploits or status; virginity, sexual initiation and the acceptance of sexual maturity, childbearing and parenthood; and, finally, attitudes toward death and dying. |
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... dramatic architecture . Romeo leaps a wall into Juliet's garden , Coriolanus bursts alone through the gate of Corioles . Lysander tells Helena that ' through Athens ' gates we have devised to steal ' ( MNDI . i . 213 ) , and the King of ...
... dramatic architecture . Romeo leaps a wall into Juliet's garden , Coriolanus bursts alone through the gate of Corioles . Lysander tells Helena that ' through Athens ' gates we have devised to steal ' ( MNDI . i . 213 ) , and the King of ...
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... dramatic design . In The Comedy of Errors Adriana mistakes the Syracusan Antipholus and his Dromio for her husband ... dramatically accentuated , as that guarded by the Porter in Macbeth . He himself compares it to ' hell gate ' ( II ...
... dramatic design . In The Comedy of Errors Adriana mistakes the Syracusan Antipholus and his Dromio for her husband ... dramatically accentuated , as that guarded by the Porter in Macbeth . He himself compares it to ' hell gate ' ( II ...
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... dramatic character is challenged with understand- ing the play of which he is a part . The failure of Richard III and Macbeth ( and , more controversially , of Othello ) to do so is part of their tragedy . At the same time it is also ...
... dramatic character is challenged with understand- ing the play of which he is a part . The failure of Richard III and Macbeth ( and , more controversially , of Othello ) to do so is part of their tragedy . At the same time it is also ...
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... the twentieth cen- tury . But the impulse to see rites of initiation in dramatic terms reflects a basic truth about those rites . They mark a turning point in the life of the individual , and it 16 COMING OF AGE IN SHAKESPEARE.
... the twentieth cen- tury . But the impulse to see rites of initiation in dramatic terms reflects a basic truth about those rites . They mark a turning point in the life of the individual , and it 16 COMING OF AGE IN SHAKESPEARE.
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... dramatic works . Jane Ellen Harrison pointed out that descriptions of the Eleusinian mysteries by later Greek authors ' use constantly the vocabulary of the stage ' , 33 and later suggested that the Don Juan legend originated in ' a ...
... dramatic works . Jane Ellen Harrison pointed out that descriptions of the Eleusinian mysteries by later Greek authors ' use constantly the vocabulary of the stage ' , 33 and later suggested that the Don Juan legend originated in ' a ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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