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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... say that they now deliver their spiritual message on a different plane of human experience , by addressing themselves directly to the imagination . He then goes on to speak directly of fairy tales , asserting that ' it is impossible to ...
... say that they now deliver their spiritual message on a different plane of human experience , by addressing themselves directly to the imagination . He then goes on to speak directly of fairy tales , asserting that ' it is impossible to ...
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... say / The barren , touch'd in this holy chase , / Shake off their sterile curse ' ( JC 1. ii . 7-9 ) . Elsewhere in Shakespeare's plays patterns of seasonal change frequently mirror patterns of human development - in Love's Labor's 18 ...
... say / The barren , touch'd in this holy chase , / Shake off their sterile curse ' ( JC 1. ii . 7-9 ) . Elsewhere in Shakespeare's plays patterns of seasonal change frequently mirror patterns of human development - in Love's Labor's 18 ...
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... say . In other words , they exist only to speak the truth or at least the truth as the prevailing opinion has it . And what they tell us is that - Posthumus is an exemplary man . ' In's spring [ 20 COMING OF AGE IN SHAKESPEARE.
... say . In other words , they exist only to speak the truth or at least the truth as the prevailing opinion has it . And what they tell us is that - Posthumus is an exemplary man . ' In's spring [ 20 COMING OF AGE IN SHAKESPEARE.
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... say that he regresses . - All these are fairly obvious instances , in which some visible alteration occurs in the dramatic character . But what of such figures as Cordelia or Desdemona , who seem so attractive when first we meet them ...
... say that he regresses . - All these are fairly obvious instances , in which some visible alteration occurs in the dramatic character . But what of such figures as Cordelia or Desdemona , who seem so attractive when first we meet them ...
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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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