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Shakespearean maternities : crises of conception in early modern England

By William , Laoutaris , Chris; Shakespeare

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0748624368, 978-0-7486-2436-2, 9780748630424, 0748630422, 9781281947697, 1281947695
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
48 MB (50161439 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
304\321
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

This study explores maternity in the 'disciplines' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare's theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in order to recuperate the wider intellectual, epistemological, and archaeological significance of maternity to the Renaissance imagination. Focusing on 'anatomy' in Hamlet, 'natural history' in The Tempest, 'demonology' in Macbeth, and 'heraldry' in Antony and Cleopatra, this book reveals the ways in which the maternal body was figured in, and in turn contributed towards the re-conceptualisation of, bodies of knowledge. Laoutaris argues that Shakespeare resists a monolithic concept of motherhood, presenting instead a range of contested 'maternities' which challenge the distinctive 'ways of knowing' these early disciplines worked to impose on the order of created nature

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