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A family systems approach
Interpretations of the tragedies
"Oh cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right" : legacies and searches for alternative identities in Hamlet
"Being weak, seem so" : power, status and identity loss in King Lear
"And yet nature, erring from itself" : racism, gender and intimate violence in Othello
"Wrenched with an unlineal hand" : the dynamics of violence in Macbeth
"Let me have war, say I" : man as a fighting machine in coriolanus
"The noblest-hateful love" : contradiction and irreverence in troilus and cressida
"Let rome in tiber melt" : subverting Roman identity in Anthony and Cleopatra
"Tis but thy name that is my enemy" : freedom and constraint in Romeo and Juliet
Endings
Appendix plot summaries
Bibliography
Index.
Interpretations of the tragedies
"Oh cursed spite that ever i was born to set it right" : legacies and searches for alternative identities in Hamlet
"Being weak, seem so" : power, status and identity loss in King Lear
"And yet nature, erring from itself" : racism, gender and intimate violence in Othello
"Wrenched with an unlineal hand" : the dynamics of violence in Macbeth
"Let me have war, say I" : man as a fighting machine in coriolanus
"The noblest-hateful love" : contradiction and irreverence in troilus and cressida
"Let rome in tiber melt" : subverting Roman identity in Anthony and Cleopatra
"Tis but thy name that is my enemy" : freedom and constraint in Romeo and Juliet
Endings
Appendix plot summaries
Bibliography
Index.