Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage
Felicity Dunworth
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Description for Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances and melodrama and includes close readings of plays by such diverse dramatists as Udall, Bale, Phillip, Legge, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker and Webster.
The study is enriched by reference to religious, political and literary discourses of the period, from Reformation and counter-Reformation polemic to midwifery manuals and Mother’s Legacies, the political ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088469
SKU
V9780719088469
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Ref
99-15
About Felicity Dunworth
Felicity Dunworth teaches at the University of Kent -- .
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