Suffocating Mothers
Subtitle: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415900386
First sentence: In Hamlet, the figure of the mother returns to Shakespeare's dramatic world, and her presence causes the collapse of the fragile compact that had allowed Shakespeare to explore familial and sexual relationships in the histories and romantic comedies without devastating conflict; this collapse is the point of origin of the great tragic period.