This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship, discussing twins appearing in anatomy tracts, midwifery manuals, monstrous birth broadsides, chapbooks, and early modern drama. The book contextualizes dramatic representations of twinship, investigating contemporary discussions in medical and popular literature and how such dialogues resonate with the twin characters appearing on the early modern stage. It will be of interest to those studying Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in relation to the History of Emotions, the Body, and the Medical Humanities.
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"As a new work on an often-discussed but rarely properly studied facet of early modern drama, Murray's text is valuable, but where it shines is in its considera-tion of non-dramatic representation and culture. This book is undeniably within the realm of theatre and theatre history, but it is also a work of social and cultural history around ideas of conception, childbirth, science, and gender. As a resource for scholars thinking about drama, genre, families, twins, science, non-dramatic literary culture, or any one of a number of other specific subtopics, this text is a fresh, insightful volume that will surely open up new avenues of inquiry for its readers."
- Jess Hamlet, University of Alabama, Early Theatre
- Jess Hamlet, University of Alabama, Early Theatre