Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage
Author:   Felicity Dunworth ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719076329


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 March 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage


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Author:   Felicity Dunworth ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780719076329


ISBN 10:   0719076323
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 March 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The transformation of tradition 2. Motherhood and the classical tradition 3. Motherhood and history 4. ‘Pleasing punishment’: motherhood and comic narrative 5. Motherhood and the household: domestic tragedy and city comedy 6. Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus 7. Dead mothers among the living 8. Conclusion -- .

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"""An interesting, valuable work on the ways and reasons mothers portrayed on the early-modern stage...The book offers an important discussion of an underserved topic. Recommended.""--""Choice"""


An interesting, valuable work on the ways and reasons mothers portrayed on the early-modern stage...The book offers an important discussion of an underserved topic. Recommended. -- Choice


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Felicity Dunworth teaches at the University of Kent

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