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

by Janet Adelman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415900393
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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;