Most of Shakespeare’s tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and dialogues between people on stage, linking their intimate emotional worlds to wider social and political contexts.
Key Features
- Explores the complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of Shakespeare’s portrayals of individuals and their relationships.
- Links family relationships to wider social and political contexts.
- Surveys relevant literature from Shakespeare studies.
- Introduces the ideas behind the family systems approach to literary criticism.
- Highlights the intersection of intimacy and power within gender relationships.
Additional Information
Since family relationships absorb and enact social ideologies, their conflicts often expose the conflicts that all ideologies contain. For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.
