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Fathers and sons in Shakespeare : the debt never promised

Title
Fathers and sons in Shakespeare : the debt never promised / Fred B. Tromly.
Author
Tromly, Fred B., 1943-
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.

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xiv, 360 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : interpreting Shakespeare's sons : ambivalence, rescue, and revenge -- Paternal authority and filial autonomy in Shakespeare's England -- Henry VI, part one : prototypical beginnings : the two John Talbots -- Richard II : patrilineal inheritance and the generation gap -- Henry IV, part one : Deep defiance and the rebel prince -- Henry IV, part two : the prince becomes the king, with a note on Henry V -- Hamlet : notes from the underground : paternal and filial subterfuge -- King Lear : the usurpation of fathers, and of fathers and sons -- Macbeth and the late plays : the disappearance of ambivalent sons -- Biographical coda : William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare -- Appendix 1 : Shakespearean fathers and sons in Edward III -- Appendix 2 : Thomas Plume's anecdote : the merry-cheeked, jest-cracking John Shakespeare, Sir John Mennes, and Sir John Falstaff.
Call Number
JFE 10-5229
ISBN
  • 9780802099617 (bound)
  • 0802099610 (bound)
OCLC
466659894
Author
Tromly, Fred B., 1943-
Title
Fathers and sons in Shakespeare : the debt never promised / Fred B. Tromly.
Imprint
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-5229
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