Performing maternity in early modern England / / edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154615603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-351-91207-0; 1-138-25185-2; 1-315-24711-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Collana: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Altri autori (Persone): McPhersonKathryn Read; MoncriefKathryn M
• Disciplina: 822/.309354
• Soggetti: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; English drama - 17th century - History and criticism; Motherhood in literature; WPI faculty authors
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Embodied and enacted : performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief & Kathryn R. McPherson -- 'So troubled with the mother' : the politics of pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi / Sid Ray -- 'Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to' : pregnancy, paternity and the problem of evidence in All's well that ends well / Kathryn M. Moncrief -- Hermione's suspicious body : adultery and superfetation in The winter's tale / Michelle Ephraim -- False fruit : deceptive maternities and the failure of new comedy in Middleton's A mad world, my masters / Robert Bell -- Maternity in A woman killed with kindness / Lisa Hopkins -- 'Smock-secrets' : birth and women's mysteries on the early modern stage / Janelle Jenstad -- Disciplining the mother in seventeenth-century English Puritanism / Christina Luckyj -- Male mothering and The tempest / Suzanne Penuel -- Dramatizing deliverance and devotion : churching in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Speaking stones : memory and maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Chris Laoutaris -- ; Maternity and child loss in Stuart women's diaries / Avra Kouffman -- Nursing and influence in Pandosto and The winter's tale / Donna C. Woodford -- Murder as birth in Macbeth / Gloria Olchowy -- Tamburlaine's domestic threat / Mary Stripling -- 'I'll mar the young clerk's pen' : sodomy, paternity and circumcision in The merchant of Venice / Douglas A. Brooks.