Pregnant Bodies from Shakespeare to Ford

ISBN-13: 9780367756468 / Miękka / 2023 / 224 str.

Katarzyna Burzynska

Opis

This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare’s and his contemporaries’ drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction.

Spis treści

 Introduction: Early Modern and Modern Discourses of Pregnancy and Maternity

1. Conception, Quickening and Engulfing Expansion: Pregnant Embodiment in Shakespeare’s Early Pregnancy Plays
2. Pregnancy, Labour and the Postpartum Period: Pregnant Embodiment in Shakespeare’s Late Pregnancy Plays
3. Delivery and Lying-in in Middleton's City Comedies
4. Illicit and Secret Pregnancy in Post-Shakespearean Tragedies

Conclusion

O autorze

Katarzyna Burzyńska holds a PhD in English literature and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her research interests include English early modern drama, eco-feminism, vegan studies and philosophical analysis of literature. In 2016 she published The Early Modern (Re)discovery of ‘Overhuman’ Potential: Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Over-reachers in the Light of Nietzsche’s Philosophy. The current monograph is a result of a research project entitled "Sir, she came in great with child, and longing": Phenomenology of pregnancy in English early modern drama (Measure for Measure 2.1.96)" financed by National Science Centre, Poland (no. UMO-2017/27/B/HS2/00089).