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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... figures . Aristotle , for example , divided man's life span into three , Pythagoras , Horace and Ovid four , Marcus Varro five , Avicenna and St Augustine six , and Ptolemy and Hippocrates seven ; virtually no number from three to ...
... figures . Aristotle , for example , divided man's life span into three , Pythagoras , Horace and Ovid four , Marcus Varro five , Avicenna and St Augustine six , and Ptolemy and Hippocrates seven ; virtually no number from three to ...
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... figures . Thus January might depict children playing ; June , a wedding ; November , illness ; and December , death . A painting dated 1533 by Dürer's assistant , Hans Schaufelein which has been in England since Tudor times , and is now ...
... figures . Thus January might depict children playing ; June , a wedding ; November , illness ; and December , death . A painting dated 1533 by Dürer's assistant , Hans Schaufelein which has been in England since Tudor times , and is now ...
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Marjorie Garber. figures are similarly linked arm in arm , but instead of three lovely women in the prime of youth we see one young woman , one woman decidedly aged ( with drawn face and slightly pendu- lous breasts ) and , in place of ...
Marjorie Garber. figures are similarly linked arm in arm , but instead of three lovely women in the prime of youth we see one young woman , one woman decidedly aged ( with drawn face and slightly pendu- lous breasts ) and , in place of ...
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... figures , and in each case the subject of the previous panel was depicted being conquered by the next . Thus the ... figure ( s ) offered a vivid reminder of the struggle intrinsic to passage from one stage of human development to the ...
... figures , and in each case the subject of the previous panel was depicted being conquered by the next . Thus the ... figure ( s ) offered a vivid reminder of the struggle intrinsic to passage from one stage of human development to the ...
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... Figures like Mariana ( ' neither maid , widow , nor wife ' [ Measure v . i . 177–8 ] ) , Edgar disguised as Poor Tom , or Coriolanus banished from Rome - to choose only a few examples - may aptly be characterized as marginal persons ...
... Figures like Mariana ( ' neither maid , widow , nor wife ' [ Measure v . i . 177–8 ] ) , Edgar disguised as Poor Tom , or Coriolanus banished from Rome - to choose only a few examples - may aptly be characterized as marginal persons ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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