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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... examples as great teacher - scholars and their humanistic commitment to literature have been of the highest importance in shaping my own sense of vocation and craft . Finally , I should like to thank those many brilliant and inventive ...
... examples as great teacher - scholars and their humanistic commitment to literature have been of the highest importance in shaping my own sense of vocation and craft . Finally , I should like to thank those many brilliant and inventive ...
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... 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 twelve was without its ...
... 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 twelve was without its ...
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... example from about the same period , attributed to Baldung Grien , is a painting ( presently in Munich ) of ' The Three Ages ' designed as a diptych to balance ' The Three Graces'.3 In fact , ' The Three Ages ' seems to be almost a ...
... example from about the same period , attributed to Baldung Grien , is a painting ( presently in Munich ) of ' The Three Ages ' designed as a diptych to balance ' The Three Graces'.3 In fact , ' The Three Ages ' seems to be almost a ...
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... example from the Tudor period may help to clarify this distinction between difference and change , and to suggest the relevance of such patterns to our understanding of maturity . As a young man , Sir Thomas More designed a ' fyne ...
... example from the Tudor period may help to clarify this distinction between difference and change , and to suggest the relevance of such patterns to our understanding of maturity . As a young man , Sir Thomas More designed a ' fyne ...
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... examples - may aptly be characterized as marginal persons , whose outcast conditions threaten both themselves and the social worlds they inhabit . - Equally suggestive for students of Shakespeare is the work of Victor Turner , and ...
... examples - may aptly be characterized as marginal persons , whose outcast conditions threaten both themselves and the social worlds they inhabit . - Equally suggestive for students of Shakespeare is the work of Victor Turner , and ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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