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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage / Felicity Dunworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunworth, Felicity, author.
- Series:
- Manchester Shakespeare collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Mothers in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage' is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-16th century to the early 17th centuries.
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century; 2 Motherhood and the classical tradition; 3 Motherhood and history; 4 'Pleasing punishment': motherhood and comicnarrative; 5 Motherhood and thehousehold: domestic tragedy and city comedy; 6 Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus; 7 Dead mothers among the living; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847796936
- 1847796931
- 9781781702161
- 1781702160
- 9781847792891
- 1847792898
- OCLC:
- 818847334
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