Coming of Age in ShakespeareMarjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--"coming of age"--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are: separation from parent or sibling in preparation for sexual love and the choice of husband or wife; the use of names and nicknames as a sign of individual exploits or status; virginity, sexual initiation and the acceptance of sexual maturity, childbearing and parenthood; and, finally, attitudes toward death and dying. |
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... identity crisis ' in an individual's psychic development . Erikson notes that the word ' crisis ' has come to be accepted as ' designating a necessary turning point , a crucial moment , when development must move one way or another ...
... identity crisis ' in an individual's psychic development . Erikson notes that the word ' crisis ' has come to be accepted as ' designating a necessary turning point , a crucial moment , when development must move one way or another ...
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... identity and self - reflectiveness - what will be described in Chap- ter 6 as the rite of comparison and distinction : ' in psychological terms ' , he asserts , identity formation employs a process of simultaneous reflec- tion and ...
... identity and self - reflectiveness - what will be described in Chap- ter 6 as the rite of comparison and distinction : ' in psychological terms ' , he asserts , identity formation employs a process of simultaneous reflec- tion and ...
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... identity , and integrated into a new social role . It is this kind of crisis , and this kind of rite , that I have attempted to discover and analyze in the patterns of Shakespeare's plays . It may be useful here to note that seasonal ...
... identity , and integrated into a new social role . It is this kind of crisis , and this kind of rite , that I have attempted to discover and analyze in the patterns of Shakespeare's plays . It may be useful here to note that seasonal ...
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... to do so , as we shall see , fail to undergo a rite of passage , and instead of being incorporated into a new identity or social role , they remain static , imprisoned by their own natures and banished or INTRODUCTION 21.
... to do so , as we shall see , fail to undergo a rite of passage , and instead of being incorporated into a new identity or social role , they remain static , imprisoned by their own natures and banished or INTRODUCTION 21.
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... identity formation ' of which Erikson speaks is crucial to both the protagonist and the secondary characters who surround and influence him . The same could be said of the dramatic development of Leontes , or Lear , or Benedick , each ...
... identity formation ' of which Erikson speaks is crucial to both the protagonist and the secondary characters who surround and influence him . The same could be said of the dramatic development of Leontes , or Lear , or Benedick , each ...
Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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