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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... Prince Escalus - all stress the need for a return to a more normal mode of life . The life of the society is altered by the tragic deaths , but cannot cease or die with the dead . - In his introductory remarks on classification of rites ...
... Prince Escalus - all stress the need for a return to a more normal mode of life . The life of the society is altered by the tragic deaths , but cannot cease or die with the dead . - In his introductory remarks on classification of rites ...
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... prince decreed ? The delay in the delivery of this second message is painful , not amusing . Similarly the Nurse's earthy pragma- tism is attractive in the early scenes , much less so when she urges Juliet to commit bigamy and marry ...
... prince decreed ? The delay in the delivery of this second message is painful , not amusing . Similarly the Nurse's earthy pragma- tism is attractive in the early scenes , much less so when she urges Juliet to commit bigamy and marry ...
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... Prince Hal are overtly a chronicle of education , and Hamlet too is ( among many other things ) a play about the problems of coming of age . To speak of maturity for Juliet or Hal or Hamlet is hardly to do violence to the fictive nature ...
... Prince Hal are overtly a chronicle of education , and Hamlet too is ( among many other things ) a play about the problems of coming of age . To speak of maturity for Juliet or Hal or Hamlet is hardly to do violence to the fictive nature ...
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Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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