Family dramas : intimacy, power and systems in Shakespeare's tragedies /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Systemic thinking and practice series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- A family systems approach
- Interpretations of the tragedies
- "Oh cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right" : legacies and searches for alternative identities in Hamlet
- "Being weak, seem so" : power, status and identity loss in King Lear
- "And yet nature, erring from itself" : racism, gender and intimate violence in Othello
- "Wrenched with an unlineal hand" : the dynamics of violence in Macbeth
- "Let me have war, say I" : man as a fighting machine in coriolanus
- "The noblest-hateful love" : contradiction and irreverence in troilus and cressida
- "Let rome in tiber melt" : subverting Roman identity in Anthony and Cleopatra
- "Tis but thy name that is my enemy" : freedom and constraint in Romeo and Juliet
- Endings
- Appendix plot summaries
- Bibliography
- Index.