Fathers and sons in Shakespeare
Subtitle: the debt never promised
By: Fred B. Tromly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780802099617
Subjects: Fathers and sons in literature; Fathers; Sons; Criticism and interpretation; Characters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : interpreting Shakespeare's sons : ambivalence, rescue, and revenge; title: Paternal authority and filial autonomy in Shakespeare's England; title: Henry VI, part one : prototypical beginnings : the two John Talbots; title: Richard II : patrilineal inheritance and the generation gap; title: Henry IV, part one : Deep defiance and the rebel prince; title: Henry IV, part two : the prince becomes the king, with a note on Henry V; title: Hamlet : notes from the underground : paternal and filial subterfuge; title: King Lear : the usurpation of fathers, and of fathers and sons; title: Macbeth and the late plays : the disappearance of ambivalent sons; title: Biographical coda : William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare; title: Appendix 1 : Shakespearean fathers and sons in Edward III; title: Appendix 2 : Thomas Plume's anecdote : the merry-cheeked, jest-cracking John Shakespeare, Sir John Mennes, and Sir John Falstaff.