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SHAKESPEARE: THE DRAMA OF GENERATIONS
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ISBN
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9780230634022
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Publisher
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Macmillan Publishers India
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Subject
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Literature: History & Criticism
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Binding
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Paperback
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Pages
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234
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Year
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2007
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Shakespeare: The Drama of Generations offers a new interpretation of many of Shakespeare’s plays, among them A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. Like the world of myth and legend, Shakespeare’s plays are haunted with the killing of the young. King John orders the execution of his young nephew. Claudius plots against Hamlet. Macbeth orders the murder of Fleance and Macduff’s entire family. One after another, Shakespeare’s men of ambition find themselves living out the Machiavellian precept that one who intends to make his political fortune had better wipe out not only his enemy but also his enemy’s heirs. But Shakespeare’s interest in ambition goes beyond the portrayal of crimes against the young. It extends to the depiction of political violence against a background of hereditary practices, established norms and successive generations. This volume argues that the succession of the generations and the continuous renewal of the world constit
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Author Biography
Stewart Justman was born in New York City in 1948 and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Columbia University in 1976. He is Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Montana, USA, where he has been teaching for the past thirty years. He is the author of many books, among them a meditation on cancer - Seeds of Mortality - which won PEN America’s Award for the Art of the Essay in 2004, and Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology, named by the Popular Culture Association of the US as the best book by a single author in 2005. He has also published extensively on Chaucer and the nineteenth century novel.
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