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Family dramas : intimacy, power and systems in Shakespeare's tragedies / Gwyn Daniel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniel, Gwyn, author.
- Series:
- Systemic thinking and practice series
- The systemic thinking and practice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Families--Psychological aspects.
- Families.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Daniel, Gwyn, author. Family dramas
- ISBN:
- 9781138335769
- 1138335762
- 9781138335776
- 1138335770
- OCLC:
- 1060186173
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