Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw

by Lagretta Tallent Lenker

How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by their contemporaries? This book considers these and similar questions. It examines the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313317542
• ISBN13: 9780313317545
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"