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Performing maternity in early modern England / edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson.

  • Accession number

    83431292

  • Class

    81/PER/MON

  • ISBN

    9780754661177 (hbk.), 0754661172 (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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General note: Includes index. Bibliography, etc. note: Bibliography: p. [239]-241. Formatted contents note: Embodied and enacted : performances of maternity in early modern England / Kathryn M. Moncrief Kathryn R. McPherson -- So troubled with the mother: the politics of pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi / Sid Ray -- Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to: pregnancy, paternity and the problem of evidence in All's well that ends well / Kathryn M. Moncrief -- Hermione's suspicious body : adultery and superfetation in The winter's tale / Michelle Ephraim -- False fruit : deceptive maternities and the failure of new comedy in Middleton's A mad world, my masters / Robert Bell -- Maternity in A woman killed with kindness / Lisa Hopkins -- Smock-secrets: birth and women's mysteries on the early modern stage / Janelle Jenstad -- Disciplining the mother in seventeenth-century English Puritanism / Christina Luckyj -- Male mothering and The tempest / Suzanne Penuel -- Dramatizing deliverance and devotion : churching in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Speaking stones : memory and maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra / Chris Laoutaris -- Maternity and child loss in Stuart women's diaries / Avra Kouffman -- Nursing and influence in Pandosto and The winter's tale / Donna C. Woodford -- Murder as birth in Macbeth / Gloria Olchowy -- Tamburlaine's domestic threat / Mary Stripling -- Ill mar the young clerk's pen: sodomy, paternity and circumcision in The merchant of Venice / Douglas A. Brooks.