Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage
By: Felicity Dunworth
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719076329
Subjects: English drama; Motherhood in literature; Mothers in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century; title: Motherhood and the classical tradition; title: Motherhood and history; title: 'Pleasing punishment' : motherhood and comic narrative; title: Motherhood and the household : domestic tragedy and city comedy; title: Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus; title: Dead mothers among the living; title: Conclusion.