Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
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Female Grief
Female Lament
Female Mourning
gender and emotion studies
grief
Grieving Women
Inconsolable Grief
lament
laments
Mary's Lament
marys
Mary’s Lament
Mater Dolorosa
maternal lamentation
Maternal Mourning
Medieval Drama
Medieval English Drama
medieval religious plays
mourning practices in English drama
Mourning Women
performance of grief
play
plays
post-Reformation England
reformation trauma
Richard III
Shakespeare's Richard III
Shakespeare’s Richard III
Towneley Play
Troublesome Raigne
Virgin's Grief
Virgin's Lament
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Virgin’s Grief
Virgin’s Lament
Woman's Lament
Woman’s Lament
women
womens
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- ISBN 9781138275638
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.
Katharine Goodland is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, USA.
