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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunworth, Felicity, author.

Contributor:

Frost, Matthew, other.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Manchester Shakespeare collection.

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:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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 counter-Reformation polemic to midwifery manuals and Mother's Legacies, the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth I and James VI, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and Puritan conduct books. It thus offers scholars of literature, drama, art and history a unique opportunity to consider the literary, visual and rhetorical representation of motherhood in the context of a discussion of familiar and less familiar dramatic texts.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The transformation of tradition

2. Motherhood and the classical tradition

3. Motherhood and history

4. 'Pleasing punishment': motherhood and comic narrative

5. Motherhood and the household: domestic tragedy and city comedy

6. Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus

7. Dead mothers among the living

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

First published in print form: 2010.

In-house editor: Matthew Frost.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Other Format:

Print version: Dunworth, Felicity. Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage,

ISBN:

9781847792891

9781847796936

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