Felicity Dunworth

Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088469
• ISBN-10: 0719088461
• Artikelnr.: 36125915

Autorenporträt

Felicity Dunworth teaches at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The transformation of tradition 2.
Motherhood and the classical tradition 3. Motherhood and history 4.
'Pleasing punishment': motherhood and comic narrative 5. Motherhood and the
household: domestic tragedy and city comedy 6. Typology and subjectivity in
Hamlet and Coriolanus 7. Dead mothers among the living 8. Conclusion