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Shakespearean maternities : crises of conception in early modern England /
This study explores maternity in the 'disciplines' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare's theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in order to recuperate the wider intellectual, epistemological, and archaeological signif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.