Female mourning and tragedy in medieval and renaissance English drama : from the raising of Lazarus to King Lear
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a different perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. It explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780754651017, 0754651010
71507803
Contents: Introduction; Introduction to part 1; Resistant female grief in the medieval English Lazarus plays; Maternal mourning and tragedy in the nativity and passion plays; Residual lament in the medieval resurrection plays; Introduction to part 2; Constance and the claims of passion; Mourning and communal memory in Shakespeare's Richard III; Monstrous mourning women in Kyd, Webster, and Shakespeare; The gendered poetics of tragedy in Shakespeare's Hamlet; Inverting the pieta in Shakespeare's King Lear; Bibliography; Index.
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