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Author Adelman, Janet.

Title Suffocating mothers : fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to the Tempest / Janet Adelman.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 1992.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S527YADE    Check Shelf
Description xii, 379 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-363) and indexes.
Contents Man and wife is one flesh : Hamlet and the confrontation with the maternal body -- Is thy union here? : union and its discontents in Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Marriage and the maternal body : on marriage as the end of comedy in All's well that ends well and Measure for measure -- Suffocating mothers in King Lear -- Escaping the matrix : the construction of masculinity in
Macbeth and Coriolanus -- Making defect perfection : imagining male bounty in Timon of Athens and Antony and Cleopatra -- Masculine authority and the maternal body : the return to origins in the romances.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mothers.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Masculinity in literature.
Mothers and sons in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Human body in literature.
Fantasy in literature.
Indexed Term English drama
ISBN 0415900387
0415900395 paperback
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