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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 play cunningly 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.
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