Performing Maternity in Early Modern EnglandThe essays here share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. They look at how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity. |
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Performances of Maternity | 1 |
circa 1595 | 2 |
The Politics of Pregnancy | 8 |
The Performance of Maternal Suffering | 10 |
Adultery and Superfetation | 45 |
Deceptive Maternities and the Failure of New Comedy | 59 |
Maternity in A Woman Killed with Kindness | 73 |
Birth and Womens Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage | 87 |
Male Mothering and The Tempest | 115 |
Courtesy of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster | 144 |
Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Womens Diaries | 171 |
Murder as Birth in Macbeth | 197 |
Tamburlaines Domestic Threat | 211 |
The Merchant of Venice | 225 |
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Disciplining the Mother in SeventeenthCentury English Puritanism | 101 |
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| Titel | Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Studies in performance and early modern drama |
| Redaktörer | Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson |
| Utgåva | illustrerad |
| Utgivare | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 |
| ISBN | 0754661172, 9780754661177 |
| Längd | 247 sidor |
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