Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage

Dunworth, Felicity.

Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage [electronic resource] / Felicity Dunworth. - Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 248 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.

The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century -- Motherhood and the classical tradition -- Motherhood and history -- 'Pleasing punishment' : motherhood and comic narrative -- Motherhood and the household : domestic tragedy and city comedy -- Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus -- Dead mothers among the living -- Conclusion.


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English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.


Electronic books.

PR658.M68 / D86 2010eb

822.30935252