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Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage

Title
Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage / Felicity Dunworth.
Author
Dunworth, Felicity.
Publication
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Description
248 pages; 23 cm
Summary
'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.
Subject
  • 1500-1600
  • English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
  • Mothers in literature
  • Motherhood in literature
  • English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
  • Mutter Motiv
  • Drama
  • Theater
  • Englisch
  • Moederschap
  • Moeders
  • Toneelstukken
  • Engels
  • Drama > englisches > Motiv > Mutter
  • Mutter > Motiv > Drama > englisches
  • Drama
  • Englisch
  • Motiv
  • Mutter
  • England
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780719076329
  • 0719076323
LCCN
2010280458
OCLC
  • ocn430839460
  • 430839460
  • SCSB-14508529
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library