Performing maternity in early modern England
By: edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson.
Contributors: Moncrief, Kathryn M.; McPherson, Kathryn Read.
Series: Studies in performance and early modern drama
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661177
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Motherhood in literature; Pregnancy in literature; Paternity in literature; Motherhood -- England -- History -- 16th century; Motherhood -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Embodied and enacted : performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson; title: So troubled with the mother : the politics of pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi / Sid Ray; title: Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to : pregnancy, paternity, and the problem of evidence in All's well that ends well / Kathryn M. Moncrief; title: Hermione's suspicious body : adultery and superfetation in The winter's tale / Michelle Ephraim; title: False fruit : deceptive maternities and the failure of new comedy in Middleton's A mad world, my masters / Robert Bell; title: Maternity in A woman killed with kindness / Lisa Hopkins; title: Smock-secrets : birth and women's mysteries on the early modern stage / Janelle Jenstad; title: Disciplining the mother in seventeenth-century English Puritanism / Christina Luckyj; title: Male mothering and The tempest / Suzanne Penuel; title: Dramatizing deliverance and devotion : churching in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson; title: Speaking stones : memory and maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Chris Laoutaris; title: Maternity and child loss in Stuart women's diaries / Avra Kouffman; title: Nursing and influence in Pandosto and The winter's tale / Donna C. Woodford; title: Murder as birth in Macbeth / Gloria Olchowy; title: Tamburlaine's domestic threat / Mary Stripling; title: I'll mar the young clerk's pen : sodomy, paternity, and circumcision in The merchant of Venice / Douglas A. Brooks.