Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities; histories; romantic comedies; city comedies; domestic tragedies; high tragedies; romances and melodrama and includes close readings of plays by such diverse dramatists as Udall; Bale; Phillip; Legge; Kyd; Marlowe; Peele; Shakespeare; Middleton; Dekker and Webster.The study is enriched by reference to religious; political and literary discourses of the period; from Reformation and counter-Reformation polemic to midwifery manuals and Mothers Legacies; the political rhetoric of Mary I; Elizabeth I and James VI; reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and Puritan conduct books. It thus offers scholars of literature; drama; art and history a unique opportunity to consider the literary; visual and rhetorical representation of motherhood in the context of a discussion of familiar and less familiar dramatic texts.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Good jumping startBy Terri RowleyThis book is an excellent resource for anyone starting out in teaching themselves to draw. Those who just want a refresher on what drawing should be like in the mind of the artist would benefit. This is a valuable gem showing how the subject should be approached from an acquisition stand point. Guided practice makes perfect. His approach and suggestions for acquiring the skills to draw are isolated as his science by building off the blocks he previously laid down for foundations. These progressive steps should be noted. The theories or plans are presented with pictures of his own design and plates from other artists referred to. He even provides a good selection of reference suggestions that coincide with the discussions and lessons. I would highly recommend this book as one of many for the study without a master; yet a must have even with a teacher. It might open your mind up to the meaning and drive of individual art; or provide a new technique or approach that might have been looked over.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. uselessBy TAOthere are no illustrations/plates in this edition (at least the paperback volume i was sent). this makes the book essentially useless. the quality of the free online version illustrations/plates are very low and near useless as well. whatever the historical value of the text its difficult to practice without the works being discussed.too bad. others seem to find it really great.id go with the bargue book in which the plates are well reproduced; also a good (and popular) book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Wonderfully useful to any artist.By BrewdaddyWhile written quite some time ago; and including some negative criticism of what was then new styles of artistic expression; this work is as valuable to the modern artist as it ever was.While the title would lead one to expect it to be mostly useful to illustrators; print makers; or other artists who predominantly "draw" rather than other media; the author spends as much time on painting technique as he does drafting; and his commentary on composition; line; and colour is universal to all two dimensional art forms.I strongly recommend this work; and expect to refer back to it often.
