Suffocating Mothers - Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare s Plays, Hamlet to

Informationen zum Autor Adelman Janet Klappentext First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Janet Adelman, Adelman Janet
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138177161
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17716-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Theatre Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean