Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare : The Debt Never Promised.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts -- Introduction: Interpreting Shakespeare's Sons - Ambivalence, Rescue, and Revenge -- 1 Paternal Authority and Filial Autonomy in Shakespeare's England -- 2 Henry VI, Part One: Prototypical Beginnings - The Two John Talbots -- 3 Richard II: Patrilineal Inheritance and the Generation Gap -- 4 Henry IV, Part One: 'Deep Defiance' and the Rebel Prince -- 5 Henry IV, Part Two: The Prince Becomes the King (with a Note on Henry V) -- 6 Hamlet: Notes from Underground - Paternal and Filial Subterfuge -- 7 King Lear: The Usurpation of Fathers - and of Fathers and Sons -- 8 Macbeth and the Late Plays: The Disappearance of Ambivalent Sons -- 9 Biographical Coda: William Shakespeare, Son of John Shakespeare -- Appendix 1: Shakespearean Fathers and Sons in Edward III -- Appendix 2: Thomas Plume's Anecdote: The Merry-Cheeked, Jest-Cracking John Shakespeare, Sir John Mennes, and Sir John Falstaff -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

Through careful scrutiny of word and deed, the scholarship in Fathers and Sons in Shakespearereveals the complex attitude Shakespeare's sons harbour towards their fathers.

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