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Shakespeare and the loss of Eden : the construction of family values in early modern culture

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In a harsh, uncaring world the family is valued as a source of warmth and stability.

At the same time, we are increasingly compelled to recognize that families can be oppressive both physically and emotionally.

Now in paperback, Catherine Belsey's illustrated account of Shakespeare's plays, in conjunction with early modern images of Adam and Eve, locates the construction of family values in cultural history and politics.

She shows the pleasures and anxieties generated in the period by the domestication of desire, parental love and cruelty and the relations between siblings and discusses how Shakespeare's plays explore these themes.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0333801849 / 9780333801840
Paperback / softback
822.33
29/08/2001
United Kingdom
English
xvii, 203p. : ill.
22 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.