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Family Dramas

By Gwyn Daniel

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Family Dramas

By Gwyn Daniel

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Most of Shakespeare's tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and dialogues between people on stage, linking their intimate emotional worlds to wider social and political contexts.
Since family relationships absorb and enact social ideologies, their conflicts often expose the conflicts that all ideologies contain. The complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of Shakespeare's portrayals of individuals and their relationships are brought to life, while wider power structures and social discourses are shown to reach into the heart of intimate relationships and personal identity. Surveying relevant literature from Shakespeare studies, the book introduces the ideas behind the family systems approach to literary criticism. Explorations of gender relationships feature particularly strongly in the analysis since it is within gender that intimacy and power most compellingly intersect and frequently collide.
For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2018-11-30
Publication Date:
2018-11-30
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1138335770
ISBN13:
9781138335776
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
483 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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