Abstract
The effect of the Fall is a profound uncertainty at the heart of human existence. This perplexity concerns life’s differentiating other, the unknown condition of death, brought into being by the first couple, and violently introduced into the first family. In Shakespeare the family, loving, unpredictable, vulnerable, homicidal, is variously material for comedy, romance and tragedy. Family values are both life-giving and deadly.
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Jacques Lacan, Ecrits, trans. Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock, 1977), p. 284.
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Belsey, C. (1999). Postscript: Passion and Interpretation. In: Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15047-2_6
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