Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage - Dunworth, Felicity; ebrary, Inc. (Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
The transformation of tradition in the sixteenth century -- Motherhood and the classical tradition -- Motherhood and history -- 'Pleasing punishment' : motherhood and comic narrative -- Motherhood and the household : domestic tragedy and city comedy -- Typology and subjectivity in Hamlet and Coriolanus -- Dead mothers among the living -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Motherhood in literature; Electronic books