Shakespearean Maternities : Crises of Conception in Early Modern England

Name: Shakespearean Maternities
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748624362
Price: 21600 KES
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ISBN: 9780748624362

by Chris Laoutaris

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0748624368

ISBN-13 9780748624362

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 20th, 2008

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 682 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 16.60 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: plays and playwrights Shakespeare studies & criticism

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This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England.

This study explores maternity in the ''disciplines'' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare''s theatre, Chris Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in which the rituals of childbirth, midwifery and wet-nursing were performed 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.

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