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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... symbolic and spatial area of transition may be found in more or less pronounced form in all the ceremonies which accompany the passage from one social and magico - religious position to another . The term ' magico - religious ' may seem ...
... symbolic and spatial area of transition may be found in more or less pronounced form in all the ceremonies which accompany the passage from one social and magico - religious position to another . The term ' magico - religious ' may seem ...
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... symbolically as well as psychologically cannot separate themselves from the murder ( II . ii ; v . i ) . In each case the attempt is accompanied by the real or imagined sound of knocking at the gate , a reminder of Duncan's death and ...
... symbolically as well as psychologically cannot separate themselves from the murder ( II . ii ; v . i ) . In each case the attempt is accompanied by the real or imagined sound of knocking at the gate , a reminder of Duncan's death and ...
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... symbolic death of the child , his incubation in darkness , and his rebirth or resurrection into a newborn state where he must learn to speak again , receive a new name and be incorporated into a new society or social group . Initiation ...
... symbolic death of the child , his incubation in darkness , and his rebirth or resurrection into a newborn state where he must learn to speak again , receive a new name and be incorporated into a new society or social group . Initiation ...
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... symbolic pattern of an initiation ritual , like that of an agricultural festival , is based upon a metaphorical experience of death and rebirth . But the life crisis that provokes that ex- perience occurs not as a result of changes in ...
... symbolic pattern of an initiation ritual , like that of an agricultural festival , is based upon a metaphorical experience of death and rebirth . But the life crisis that provokes that ex- perience occurs not as a result of changes in ...
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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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