Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the TempestRoutledge, 1992 - 379 pages 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body | 11 |
Union and Its Discontents in Troilus and Cressida and Othello | 38 |
On Marriage as the End of Comedy in Alls Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure | 76 |
5 Suffocating Mothers in King Lear | 103 |
The Construction of Masculinity in Macbeth and Coriolanus | 130 |
Imagining Male Bounty in Timon of Athens and Antony and Cleopatra | 165 |
The Return to Origins in the Romances | 193 |
Notes | 239 |
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