Gwyn Daniel

Family Dramas

Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies

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Produktbeschreibung

For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781138335769
• ISBN-10: 1138335762
• Artikelnr.: 56875726

Autorenporträt

Gwyn Daniel has practiced as a Family Therapist, Trainer and Clinical Supervisor within the National Health Service and co-founded the Oxford Family Institute. She has authored or co-authored many professional books and articles. In the past ten years, she has given presentations internationally on her family systems approach to Shakespeare¿s tragedies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Series Editor¿s Foreword by Charlotte Burck
Preface by Gill Gorell Barnes
Introduction
Chapter One. A Family Systems Approach.
Chapter Two. Interpretations of the Tragedies.
Chapter Three. "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right":
Legacies and searches for alternative identities in Hamlet.
Chapter Four. "Being weak, seem so": Power, status and identity loss in
King Lear.
Chapter Five. "And yet nature, erring from itself": Racism, gender and
intimate violence in Othello.
Chapter Six. "Wrenched with an unlineal hand": The dynamics of violence in
Macbeth.
Chapter Seven. "Let me have war, say I": Man as a fighting machine in
Coriolanus.
Chapter Eight. "The noblest-hateful love": Contradiction and irreverence in
Troilus and Cressida.
Chapter Nine. "Let Rome in Tiber Melt": Subverting Roman identity in
Anthony and Cleopatra.
Chapter Ten. "Tis but thy name that is my enemy": Freedom and constraint in
Romeo and Juliet.
Chapter Eleven. Endings.
Appendix. Plot summaries.
Bibliography.
Index.