Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters
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Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

About this book

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies, a former university lecturer and now an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and Olivier Award winner, has written an engaging and deeply researched study of a topic that has intrigued him from playing Capulet in 1967, King Lear in 2002, to Polonius in 2008.

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Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Related Titles
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Early plays
  12. 2 Comedies
  13. 3 Tragedies and tragicomedies
  14. 4 Late plays
  15. 5 Shakespeare and his daughters
  16. 6 Fathers and daughters in contemporary society
  17. 7 Fathers and daughters in drama 1585–1620
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Select Bibliography
  21. Index