Suffocating Mothers

Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest

• Author(s): Janet Adelman,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 379
• ISBN_10: 0415900395
  ISBN_13: 9780415900393
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / General , Drama / Shakespeare , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Drama , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... 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.