Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Blechner, Mark J. "King Lear, King Leir, and Incest Wishes." American Imago 45, No. 3 (Fall 1988); 309-25.

Analyzes the changes Shakespeare made to the source of King Lear in order to demonstrate his interest in the father-daughter incest motif.

Coursen, H. R. "Lear and Cordelia." Cahiers Elisabethains 40 (October 1991): 11-20.

Reviews several productions of King Lear that exist on tape, focusing in particular upon the relationship between Lear and Cordelia.

Godard, Barbara. "Caliban's Revolt: The Discourse of the (M)Other." In Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, edited by Colin Nicholson. London: Macmillan, 1990, pp. 208-27.

Argues that the mother is a figure of subversion in The Tempest and in Margaret Laurence's fiction.

Hansen, Carol. "Authority of the Father." In Woman as Individual in English Renaissance Drama: A Defiance of the Masculine...

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