| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A highly original, interdisciplinary scholarly study of the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Constructing maternal knowledge -- 1. Flesh and stone : dissecting maternity in the theatre of anatomy. -- Behold the woman : the Renaissance anatomist in the satyr's mask -- Hearts and hands : the satirical disclosures of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 2. Cabinet of wonders : monstrous conceptions in the theatre of nature. -- Wonders of common things : the natural history of maternity and the Renaissance garden-grotto -- Above the beast : the monster and the natural historian in Shakespeare's Tempest -- 3. Strange labours : maternity and maleficium in the theatre of justice. -- Breaching the wall : the archaeologies of witchcraft and the maternal body in early modern England -- Poisoned chalices : the reproductive demonologies of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- 4. Speaking stones : memory and maternity in the theatre of death. -- Voce pia mater : memoralising mothers and the death-ritual in early modern England -- A celerity in dying : the maternal postures of death in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- Postscript: Our maternities : the historical legacy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mothers.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Mothers. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Mothers. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Laoutaris, Chris. Shakespearean maternities. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748624362 0748624368 (OCoLC)184821688 |
| ISBN |
9780748630424 (electronic book) |
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0748630422 (electronic book) |
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1281947695 |
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9781281947697 |
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0748624368 (Cloth) |
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9780748624362 |
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