Title Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages) Series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Studies in performance and early modern drama. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Embodied and Enacted: Performances of Maternity in Early Modern England; Part I: The Performance of Pregnancy; 2 'So troubled with the mother': The Politics of Pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi; 3 '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; 4 Hermione's Suspicious Body: Adultery and Superfetation in The Winter's Tale 5 False Fruit: Deceptive Maternities and the Failure of New Comedy in Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters6 Maternity in A Woman Killed with Kindness; Part II: The Performance of Maternal Authority; 7 'Smock-secrets': Birth and Women's Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage; 8 Disciplining the Mother in Seventeenth-Century English Puritanism; 9 Male Mothering and The Tempest; Part III: The Performance of Maternal Suffering; 10 Dramatizing Deliverance and Devotion: Churching in Early Modern England; 11 Speaking Stones: Memory and Maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra 12 Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Women's DiariesPart IV: The Performance of Maternal Erasure; 13 Nursing and Influence in Pandosto and The Winter's Tale; 14 Murder as Birth in Macbeth; 15 Tamburlaine's Domestic Threat; 16 'I'll mar the young clerk's pen': Sodomy, Paternity and Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary The essays here share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. They look at how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject 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 English drama English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan Motherhood Motherhood in literature Paternity in literature Pregnancy in literature Mutterschaft Motiv Aufführungspraxis Drama England Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Moncrief, Kathryn M Ostovich, Dr. Helen ISBN 9781351912082 1351912089

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