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Mothers and meaning on the Early Modern English stage.

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 tragedie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunworth, Felicity
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century; 2 Motherhood and the classical tradition; 3 Motherhood and history; 4 'Pleasing punishment': motherhood and comicnarrative; 5 Motherhood and thehousehold: domestic tragedy and city comedy; 6 Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus; 7 Dead mothers among the living; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.