Jul 24, 2008

The Tempest | Father-Daughter Relationships in Shakespeare's Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest

In-depth exploration of some the ways in which father-daughter relationships define both structure and theme in the three plays.

"This form, this face, this life
Living to live in a world of time beyond me; ...
My daughter.” - T.S. Eliot, "Marina".

The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the ways in which father-daughter relationships define both structure and theme in Shakespeare's Pericles, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest. While avoiding the issue of the exact nature of Shakespeare's crisis of c. 1607-1609, we shall nevertheless agree with Dover Wilson that a conversion of some kind took place as a result of that crisis, allowing the frame of mind...