Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage /
[Book]
Felicity Dunworth
New York :
Manchester University Press,
2010
248 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century -- Motherhood and the classical tradition -- Motherhood and history -- 'Pleasing punishment' : motherhood and comic narrative -- Motherhood and the household : domestic tragedy and city comedy -- Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus -- Dead mothers among the living -- Conclusion
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'Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage' is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-16th century to the early 17th centuries
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism