Nine years ago this week, it was also the run up to Father’s Day.
Which got me thinking about father figures more generally – not just in the plays, but also the relationships Shakespeare and Marlowe might have had with theirs, and how, if at all, it impacted their work.
I haven’t lost my interest in how filial disobedience is a feature of Shakespeare’s plays We might expect it in the tragedies, but it rears its head unexpectedly sometimes in the comedies, like a sudden dandelion the middle of a lawn. And by the time you see the flower, the roots are long established.
Over to you: which do you think are the most interesting father/child relationships in literature – in Shakespeare, or beyond!
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