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Author Dunworth, Felicity

Title Mothers and meaning on the Early Modern English stage
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century; 2 Motherhood and the classical tradition; 3 Motherhood and history; 4 'Pleasing punishment': motherhood and comicnarrative; 5 Motherhood and thehousehold: domestic tragedy and city comedy; 6 Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus; 7 Dead mothers among the living; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Motherhood in literature
Mothers in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010280458
ISBN 9781847792891
1847792898
9781781702161
1781702160
1847796931
9781847796936