Woman, the Root of Man's Self-Destruction in four Shakespearean Plays
Description:
This thesis examines four plays by Shakespeare to illustrate the theme of men's downfall as caused by the women they love. One play from each type of relationship was chosen: Coriolanus for mothers who exert disastrous influence on their sons; King Lear for daughters responsible for their fathers' downfall; Cymbeline for the injurious effect of a wife on her husband, and is significant because the moral dissolution comes through her great virtue rather than through her character faults; and Tro…
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Date:
January 1967
Creator:
Brown, Barbara Love
Partner:
UNT Libraries