Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

* Times Higher Education * . A considered and convincing account of Shakespeare's development as a dramatist This is a useful and enjoyable book written from a perspective that very few people would be able to offer

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration of the family that so dominated his approach to drama. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, Oliver Ford Davies, a former university lecturer and now an Honorary Associ

. He is well known for his roles in Hamlet,King Lear and the history cycle, and has played many of Shakespeare's fathers over his distinguished career. Oliver Ford Davies is an actor and Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company