The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest

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dc.contributor.authorKanyile, Smanga Welford Nhlakanipho
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-14T09:20:43Z
dc.date.available2023-03-14T09:20:43Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionA dissertation submitted to the Department of English in fulfillment of the Requirements for a Master of Arts in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zululand, 2021.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe scholarship by most of the feminist Shakespearean critics, especially during the post-modern era, has promoted the idea of Shakespeare’s male single parents as ‘tyrannous’, ‘cruel’, ‘violent’ and ‘murderous.’ Some of these critics are Shin (2010), Callaghan (2000, 2002 and 2016), and Leventen (1991). Not only do some of the critics find ‘all’ Shakespeare’s single fathers ‘tyrannous,’ ‘cruel,’ ‘violent’ and ‘murderous’, some even claim that by such characterization of single fathers, Shakespeare was deliberately promoting these unethical behaviours of his era. This research seeks to test these views against alternative readings of Shakespeare’s single fathers, the alternative view, that not ‘all…single fathers’ are ‘tyrannous,’ ‘cruel,’ ‘violent’ and ‘murderous’ in their relationships with their children, particularly their female children. Through a close reading of father-daughter relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest,’ this paper will investigate the existence of good male single parents: those who demonstrate positive qualities in playing their paternal roles in the lives of their daughters, in particular.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/2076
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectFather-daughter Relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectShakespeare’s King Learen_US
dc.subjectMerchant of Veniceen_US
dc.subjectThe Tempesten_US
dc.titleThe Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempesten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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