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UNINA9910968876203321 |
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Autore |
Laoutaris Chris |
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Titolo |
Shakespearean maternities : crises on conception in early modern England / / Chris Laoutaris |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008 |
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0-7486-7168-4 |
1-281-94769-5 |
9786611947699 |
0-7486-3042-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motherhood in literature |
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; Introduction: Constructing maternal knowledge -- ; 1. Flesh and stone : dissecting maternity in the theatre of anatomy. -- Behold the woman : the Renaissance anatomist in the satyr's mask -- Hearts and hands : the satirical disclosures of maternity in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- ; 2. The cabinet of wonders : monstrous conceptions in the theatre of nature. -- Wonders of common things : the natural history of maternity and the Renaissance garden-grotto -- Above the beast : the monster and the natural historian in Shakespeare's Tempest -- ; 3. Strange labours : maternity and maleficium in the theatre of justice. -- Breaching the wall : the archaeologies of witchcraft and the maternal body in early modern England -- Poisoned chalices : the reproductive demonologies of Shakespeare's Macbeth -- ; 4. Speaking stones : memory and maternity in the theatre of death. -- Voce pia mater : memoralising mothers and the death-ritual in early modern England -- A celerity in dying : the maternal postures of death in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- ; Postscript: Our maternities : the historical legacy. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in |
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