Performing maternity in early modern England
Embodied and enacted : performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief & Kathryn R. McPherson -- 'So troubled with the mother' : the politics of pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi / Sid Ray -- 'Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to' :...
| Résumé: | Embodied and enacted : performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief & Kathryn R. McPherson -- 'So troubled with the mother' : the politics of pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi / Sid Ray -- 'Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to' : pregnancy, paternity and the problem of evidence in All's well that ends well / Kathryn M. Moncrief -- Hermione's suspicious body : adultery and superfetation in The winter's tale / Michelle Ephraim -- False fruit : deceptive maternities and the failure of new comedy in Middleton's A mad world, my masters / Robert Bell -- Maternity in A woman killed with kindness / Lisa Hopkins -- 'Smock-secrets' : birth and women's mysteries on the early modern stage / Janelle Jenstad -- Disciplining the mother in seventeenth-century English Puritanism / Christina Luckyj -- Male mothering and The tempest / Suzanne Penuel -- Dramatizing deliverance and devotion : churching in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Speaking stones : memory and maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Chris Laoutaris -- Maternity and child loss in Stuart women's diaries / Avra Kouffman -- Nursing and influence in Pandosto and The winter's tale / Donna C. Woodford -- Murder as birth in Macbeth / Gloria Olchowy -- Tamburlaine's domestic threat / Mary Stripling -- 'I'll mar the young clerk's pen' : sodomy, paternity and circumcision in The merchant of Venice / Douglas A. Brooks |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0754661172 |