Shakespearean maternities : crises on conception in early modern England / Chris Laoutaris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laoutaris, Chris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Mothers.

Shakespeare, William.

Motherhood in literature.

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

English drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study looks at 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7168-4

1-281-94769-5

9786611947699

0-7486-3042-2

OCLC:

476208602