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Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughter by : Elizabeth Nunez
Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Elizabeth Nunez and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is “masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Peter Gardner’s ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject for his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule. When Gardner unveils the pair’s relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, Prospero's Daughter, from American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez, uses Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, in the story of an unlikely bond between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. “Gripping and richly imagined . . . a master at pacing and plotting . . . an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence “A story about the transformative power of love . . . Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.” —Black Issues Book Review (Novel of the Year)
Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughter by : Joanna O'Connell
Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Joanna O'Connell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of Mexico's privileged upper class, yet still subordinated because of her gender, Rosario Castellanos became one of Latin America's most influential feminist social critics. Joanna O'Connell here offers the first book-length study of all Castellanos' prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos' experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas. O'Connell provides an original and detailed analysis of Castellanos' first venture into feminist cultural analysis in her essay Sobre cultura feminina (1950) and traces her moral and intellectual trajectory as feminist and social critic. An overview of Mexican indigenismo establishes the context for individual chapters on Castellanos' narratives of ethnic conflict (the novels Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas and the short stories of Ciudad Real). In further chapters O'Connell reads Los convidados de agosto, Album de familia, and Castellanos' four collections of essays as developments of her feminist social analysis.
Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughters by : Joanna O'Connell
Download or read book Prospero's Daughters written by Joanna O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Daughters by : Sharon Hamilton
Download or read book Shakespeare's Daughters written by Sharon Hamilton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father-daughter relationship was one that Shakespeare explored again and again. His typical pattern featured a middle-aged or older man, usually a widower, with an adolescent daughter who had spent most of her life under her father's control, protected in his house. The plays usually begin when the daughter is on the verge of womanhood and eager to assert her own identity and make her own decisions, especially in matters of the heart, even if it means going against her father's wishes. This work considers Capulet in Romeo and Juliet as an inept father to Juliet and Prospero in The Tempest as an able mentor to Miranda; Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Desdemona in Othello as daughters who rebel against their fathers; Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and Ophelia in Hamlet as daughters who acquiesce; Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew and Goneril and Regan in King Lear as daughters who cunningly play the good girl role; Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Viola in Twelfth Night and Rosalind in As You Like It as daughters who act in their fathers' places; and Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cordelia in Lear as daughters who forgive and heal.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine by : L. Leigh
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine written by L. Leigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughters by : Sally Stewart
Download or read book Prospero's Daughters written by Sally Stewart and published by Severn House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An atmospheric tale of one woman's search for her family's past - When Anna Rasini sees a painting in the window of an art gallery, her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a similar work, bearing the initials N. K. Early enquiries suggest that both works are by a Greek artist, Nikos Kladis, a wartime friend of Anna's long-lost grandfather. The trail leads Anna to Corfu, but she does not expect the disconcerting presence of Pierre Bouchard, an arrogantly handsome Frenchman.
Book Synopsis Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare's Romances by : Kathryn Brenna Wardell
Download or read book Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare's Romances written by Kathryn Brenna Wardell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospero's Children written by Jan Siegel and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel, life will never be the same again . . .
Book Synopsis Prospero Regained by : L. Jagi Lamplighter
Download or read book Prospero Regained written by L. Jagi Lamplighter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has endured these past many centuries. His daughter Miranda runs the family business, Prospero, Inc. so smoothly that the vast majority of humanity has no idea that the Prosperos' magic has protected Earth from numerous disasters. But Prospero himself has been kidnapped by demons from Hell, and Miranda, aided by her siblings, has followed her father into Hell to save him from a certain doom at the hands of vengeful demons. Time is running out for Miranda, and for the great magician himself. Their battle against the most terrifying forces of the Pit is a great fantasy adventure.
Book Synopsis Prospero in Hell by : L. Jagi Lamplighter
Download or read book Prospero in Hell written by L. Jagi Lamplighter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting, suspenseful story of Miranda's search for Prospero, the fabled sorcerer of The Tempest The search of a daughter for her father is but the beginning of this robust fantasy adventure. For five hundred years since the events of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Miranda has run Prospero, Inc., protecting an unknowing world from disasters both natural and man-made. Now her father has been taken prisoner of dark spirits in a place she could only guess. Piecing together clues about her father's whereabouts and discovering secrets of her shrouded past, she comes to an inescapable conclusion she has dreaded since Prospero was lost. Prospero has been imprisoned in Hell, kept there by demons who wish to extract a terrible price in exchange for his freedom. As the time of reckoning for Miranda draws near, she realizes that hundreds of years of their family's magic may not be enough to free her once-powerful father from the curse that could destroy them...and the world. Prospero in Hell is the second novel of the Prospero's Daughter series.
Book Synopsis Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw by : Lagretta Lenker
Download or read book Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw written by Lagretta Lenker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the most silent member of the family carry the message of subversion against venerated institutions of state and society? Why would two playwrights, writing 300 years apart, employ the same dramatic methods for rebelling against the establishment, when these methods are virtually ignored by their contemporaries? This book considers these and similar questions. It examines the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores types of father-daughter interactions, considering each in terms of the existing power structures of society. These two dramatists draw on themes of incest, daughter sacrifice, role playing, education, and androgyny to create both active and passive daughters. The daughters literally represent a challenge to the patriarchy and metaphorically extend that challenge to such institutions as church and state. The volume argues that the father-daughter relationship was the ideal dramatic vehicle for Shakespeare and Shaw to advance their social and political agendas. By exploring larger issues through the father-daughter relationship, both playwrights were able to avoid the watchful eyes of censors and comment on such topics as the divine right of kings, filial bonds of obedience, and even regicide.
Book Synopsis Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare by : Charles Lamb
Download or read book Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William Shakespeare by : Brian Vickers
Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Brian Vickers and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Book Synopsis Prospero's Daughter by : Nancy Butler
Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Nancy Butler and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Pierce is man entranced--by a mysterious woman in a Bath chair. Bound to her fate by a crippling carriage accident, Miranda wants only solitude during her recovery. Morgan, however, believes it is her heart that needs healing. Original.
Book Synopsis Prospero Lost by : L. Jagi Lamplighter
Download or read book Prospero Lost written by L. Jagi Lamplighter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred years after the events of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the sorcerer Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and his other children have attained everlasting life. Miranda is the head of her family's business, Prospero Inc., which secretly has used its magic for good around the world. One day, Miranda receives a warning from her father: "Beware of the Three Shadowed Ones." When Miranda goes to her father for an explanation, he is nowhere to be found. Miranda sets out to find her father and reunite with her estranged siblings, each of which holds a staff of power and secrets about Miranda's sometimes-foggy past. Her journey through the past, present and future will take her to Venice, Chicago, the Caribbean, Washington, D.C., and the North Pole. To aid her, Miranda brings along Mab, an aerie being who acts like a hard-boiled detective, and Mephistopheles, her mentally-unbalanced brother. Together, they must ward off the Shadowed Ones and other ancient demons who want Prospero's power for their own....
Book Synopsis The Shakespeare reader: with notes, historical and grammatical by W.S. Dalgleish by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Shakespeare reader: with notes, historical and grammatical by W.S. Dalgleish written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daughters of Suburbia by : Lorraine Delia Kenny
Download or read book Daughters of Suburbia written by Lorraine Delia Kenny and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
