Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage / Felicity Dunworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunworth, Felicity, author.

Contributor:

Frost, Matthew, other.

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.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

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-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances and melodrama and includes close readings of plays by such diverse dramatists as Udall, Bale, Phillip, Legge, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. The study is enriched by reference to religious, political and literary discourses of the period, from Reformation and.

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 record and e-Publication, viewed on June 13, 2018.

ISBN:

9781847796936

1847796931

9781781702161

1781702160

9781847792891

1847792898

OCLC:

818847334