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Suffocating Mothers Janet Adelman

Suffocating Mothers By Janet Adelman

Suffocating Mothers by Janet Adelman


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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.

Suffocating Mothers Summary

Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest by Janet Adelman

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.

Table of Contents

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;

Additional information

NPB9780415900393
9780415900393
0415900395
Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest by Janet Adelman
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1991-12-06
392
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