Oliver Ford Davies

Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies, a former university lecturer and now an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and Olivier Award winner, has written an engaging and deeply researched study of a topic that has intrigued him from playing Capulet in 1967, King Lear in 2002, to Polonius in 2008.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474290142
• Artikelnr.: 49150008

Autorenporträt

Oliver Ford Davies is an actor and Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is well known for his roles in Hamlet, King Lear and the history cycle, and has played many of Shakespeare's fathers over his distinguished career.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Early Plays 2. Comedies 3. Tragedies and Tragicomedies 4.
Late Plays 5. Shakespeare and his Daughters 6. Fathers and Daughters in
Contemporary Society 7. Fathers and Daughters in Drama 1585-1620 Conclusion
Notes