| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dunworth, Felicity. Mothers and meaning on the Early Modern English stage. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2010 9780719076329 |
| ISBN |
9781847792891 (electronic book) |
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1847792898 (electronic book) |
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9781781702161 (electronic book) |
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1781702160 (electronic book) |
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0719088461 |
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9780719088469 |
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9780719076329 |
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0719076323 |
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