The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama : : Plotting Women's Biology on the Stage / / Ursula A. Potter.
This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- L ist of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Troubled with the Mother
- 2. The Bugbears (1566–1570)
- 3. The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1592–1594)
- 4. Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1594–1595)
- 5. Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare
- 6. Hamlet (1601) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)
- 7. The Maid’s Tragedy (1611–1613) and Parasitaster, or The Fawne (1604–1606)
- 8. A Fair Quarrel (1617) and The Hollander (1635)
- 9. Measure for Measure (1604) and Comus: A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (1634)
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Chart of a selection of plays representing women’s health in English drama 1540–1640
- Bibliography
- Index