Janet Adelman

Suffocating Mothers

Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780415900393
• ISBN-10: 0415900395
• Artikelnr.: 22472192

Autorenporträt

Adelman Janet

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Man and Wife Is One Flesh: Hamle. and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body
Chapter 3 "Is Thy Union Here?": Union and Its Discontents in Troilus and Cressid. and Othell.
Chapter 4 Marriage and the Maternal Body: On Marriage as the End of Comedy in All's Well that Ends Wel. and Measure for Measur.
Chapter 5 Suffocating Mothers in King Lea.
Chapter 6 Escaping the Matrix: The Construction of Masculinity in Macbet. and coriolanu.
Chapter 7 Making Defect Perfection: Imagining Male Bounty in Timon of Athen. and Antony and Cleopatr.
Chapter 8 Masculine Authority and the Maternal Body: The Return to Origins in the Romances
note Notes
Author Index
Index to Shakespeare's Works
Subject Index