Performing Maternity in Early Modern EnglandPerforming Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 1540-1690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period. |
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... Wives and Heavy Husbands (Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1998), John Ford's Political Theatre (Manchester University Press and St Martin's Press, 1994), Women Who Would Be Kings: Female Rulers of the Sixteenth Century (Vision Press ...
... Wives and Heavy Husbands (Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1998), John Ford's Political Theatre (Manchester University Press and St Martin's Press, 1994), Women Who Would Be Kings: Female Rulers of the Sixteenth Century (Vision Press ...
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... wife and incipient mother. The dramatic presentation of her 'great belly', highlighted not only by its centrality in the portrait but also by the woman's delicate hand resting on it, emphasizes the worth maternity conveyed on women, as ...
... wife and incipient mother. The dramatic presentation of her 'great belly', highlighted not only by its centrality in the portrait but also by the woman's delicate hand resting on it, emphasizes the worth maternity conveyed on women, as ...
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... wife, Zenocrate. His vulnerability to her power ultimately leads to the play's exploration of the destabilizing effects of maternity and femininity, which pushes Tamburlaine to eradicate the maternal presence in his world, supplanting ...
... wife, Zenocrate. His vulnerability to her power ultimately leads to the play's exploration of the destabilizing effects of maternity and femininity, which pushes Tamburlaine to eradicate the maternal presence in his world, supplanting ...
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... wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior'.1 Henry VIII used analogies of the body to assert his authority over a feminized parliament – 'we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together ...
... wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior'.1 Henry VIII used analogies of the body to assert his authority over a feminized parliament – 'we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together ...
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... officiates at the marriage ceremony. She states, 'We now are man and wife, and 'tis the church/That must but echo this' (1.1.492–93).19 Yet she never abandons her femininity. Even at the very end of her life, she identifies herself both as.
... officiates at the marriage ceremony. She states, 'We now are man and wife, and 'tis the church/That must but echo this' (1.1.492–93).19 Yet she never abandons her femininity. Even at the very end of her life, she identifies herself both as.
Contents
Adultery and Superfetation in | |
Deceptive Maternities and the Failure of New Comedy | |
Maternity in A Woman Killed with Kindness | |
Birth and Womens Mysteries on the Early | |
Disciplining the Mother in SeventeenthCentury English Puritanism | |
Male Mothering and The Tempest | |
Churching in Early | |
Memory and Maternity in Shakespeares Antony | |
Maternity and Child Loss in Stuart Womens Diaries | |
Murder as Birth in Macbeth | |
Tamburlaines Domestic Threat | |
Circumcision in The Merchant of Venice | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn M. Moncrief,Kathryn Read McPherson Limited preview - 2007 |
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England Kathryn Read McPherson,Kathryn M. Moncrief No preview available - 2016 |
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