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Suffocating mothers : fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to The Tempest / Janet Adelman.

  • Accession number

    83273638

  • Class

    Reading Room - 48.1/ADE

  • ISBN

    0415900387, 0415900395 (pbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xii,379 . ; 24 cm.

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Formatted contents note: Contents: Man and wife is one flesh: Hamlet and the confrontation with the maternal body -- Is thy union here?: union and its discounts in Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Marriage and the maternal body: on marriage as the end of comedy in All's well that ends well and Measure for measure -- Suffocating mothers in King Lear. Uk-SuSCL Contents: Escaping the matrix: the construction of masculinity in Macbeth and Coriolanus -- Making defect perfection: imagining male bounty in Timon of Athens and Antony and Cleopatra -- Masculine authority and the maternal body: the return to origins in the romances. Uk-SuSCL.