Performing Maternity In Early Modern England
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England
Author: Kathryn M. Moncrief
language: en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date: 2007-01-01
The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. 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 in the period.
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Asuka Kimura
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2023-01-30
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
Author: Professor Karen Bamford
language: en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date: 2015-12-28
Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by authors ranging from Edmund Spenser to Margaret Cavendish.