For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Foreword by Charlotte Burck
Preface by Gill Gorell Barnes
Introduction
Chapter One. A Family Systems Approach.
Chapter Two. Interpretations of the Tragedies.
Chapter Three. "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right": Legacies and searches for alternative identities in Hamlet.
Chapter Four. "Being weak, seem so": Power, status and identity loss in King Lear.
Chapter Five. "And yet nature, erring from itself": Racism, gender and intimate violence in Othello.
Chapter Six. "Wrenched with an unlineal hand": The dynamics of violence in Macbeth.
Chapter Seven. "Let me have war, say I": Man as a fighting machine in Coriolanus.
Chapter Eight. "The noblest-hateful love": Contradiction and irreverence in Troilus and Cressida.
Chapter Nine. "Let Rome in Tiber Melt": Subverting Roman identity in Anthony and Cleopatra.
Chapter Ten. "Tis but thy name that is my enemy": Freedom and constraint in Romeo and Juliet.
Chapter Eleven. Endings.
Appendix. Plot summaries.
Bibliography.
Index.
