| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
A highly original, interdisciplinary scholarly study of the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Constructing maternal knowledge -- 1. Flesh and stone : dissecting maternity in the theatre of anatomy. -- Behold the woman : the Renaissance anatomist in the satyr's mask -- Hearts and hands : the satirical disclosures of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 2. The cabinet of wonders : monstrous conceptions in the theatre of nature. -- Wonders of common things : the natural history of maternity and the Renaissance garden-grotto -- Above the beast : the monster and the natural historian in Shakespeare's Tempest -- 3. Strange labours : maternity and maleficium in the theatre of justice. -- Breaching the wall : the archaeologies of witchcraft and the maternal body in early modern England -- Poisoned chalices : the reproductive demonologies of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- 4. Speaking stones : memory and maternity in the theatre of death. -- Voce pia mater : memoralising mothers and the death-ritual in early modern England -- A celerity in dying : the maternal postures of death in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- Postscript: Our maternities : the historical legacy. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mothers.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. (OCoLC)fst00029048
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Motherhood in literature.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan.
(OCoLC)fst01710950
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Motherhood in literature. (OCoLC)fst01026934
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Mothers in literature. (OCoLC)fst01027013
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| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1600
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Laoutaris, Chris. Shakespearean maternities. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748624362 0748624368 (OCoLC)184821688 |
| ISBN |
9780748630424 (electronic bk.) |
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0748630422 (electronic bk.) |
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