In a harsh, uncaring world the family is valued as a source of warmth and stability. At the same time, we are increasingly compelled to recognize that families can be oppressive both physically and emotionally. Now in paperback, Catherine Belsey's illustrated account of Shakespeare's plays, in conjunction with early modern images of Adam and Eve, locates the construction of family values in cultural history and politics. She shows the pleasures and anxieties generated in the period by the domestication of desire, parental love and cruelty and the relations between siblings and discusses how Shakespeare's plays explore these themes.

1. Introduction: Reading Cultural History
2. Desire in the Golden World: Love@@27@@s Labour@@27@@s Lost and As You Like It
3. Marriage: Imogen@@27@@s Bedhamber
4. Parenthood: Hermione@@27@@s Statue
5. Sibling Rivalry: Hamlet and the First Murder
6. Postscript: Passion and Interpretation

CATHERINE BELSEY is a distinguished literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. She is Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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