Performing maternity in early modern England / edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moncrief, Kathryn M.

McPherson, Kathryn Read.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in performance and early modern drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Motherhood in literature.

Pregnancy in literature.

Paternity in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Motherhood--England--History--16th century.

Motherhood.

Motherhood--England--History--17th century.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Embodied and enacted: performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-241) and index.

ISBN:

0754661172

9780754661177

OCLC:

80019793