Motherhood and patriarchal masculinities in sixteenth-century Italian comedy
By: by Yael Manes
Series: Studies in performance and early modern drama
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409434405; 9781409434412
Subjects: Italian drama; Masculinity in literature; Mothers in literature; Renaissance; History and criticism; Italian drama (Comedy); Motherhood in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: feminine fatherhood?; title: What is a mother's worth? the negotiation of motherhood and virtù in Machiavelli's La mandragola (1518); title: Replacing the father negotiating motherhood and the battle for authority in Machiavelli's Clizia (1525); title: Prescribing the ideal mother in the discourse of humanism and Antonio Landi's Il commodo (1539); title: The father-son conflict and the dysfunction of fatherhood in Giovan Maria Cecchi's La stiava (1546) and Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi (1509); title: Conclusion: motherhood as the of masculine identity's object of desire.