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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... murder , reminds himself that ' as his host / [ he ] should against his murderer shut the door ' ( 1. vii . 14-15 ) . While we are speaking of Macbeth , it is interesting to note that one of the commonest of rites carried out on the ...
... murder , reminds himself that ' as his host / [ he ] should against his murderer shut the door ' ( 1. vii . 14-15 ) . While we are speaking of Macbeth , it is interesting to note that one of the commonest of rites carried out on the ...
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... murder - an increasing isolation and derangement which no ceremonial lustration can cure . In many primitive societies and some more advanced ones rites of separation , transition and incorporation ( also known as preliminal , liminal ...
... murder - an increasing isolation and derangement which no ceremonial lustration can cure . In many primitive societies and some more advanced ones rites of separation , transition and incorporation ( also known as preliminal , liminal ...
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... murdered father , to speak of things ' which would be planted newly with the time ' ( v . viii . 65 ) . In all of these instances - and in many others - an underlying pattern of decay and rebirth in nature is clearly discernible , and ...
... murdered father , to speak of things ' which would be planted newly with the time ' ( v . viii . 65 ) . In all of these instances - and in many others - an underlying pattern of decay and rebirth in nature is clearly discernible , and ...
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Contents
SEPARATION AND INDIVIDUATION | 30 |
PLAIN SPEAKING | 80 |
WOMENS RITES | 116 |
COMPARISON AND DISTINCTION | 174 |
Lenvoy | 242 |
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