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PERFORMING MATERNITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternitys cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the period from 15401690. The essays interrogate how early modern texts depict fertility, conception, delivery and gendered constructions of maternity by analyzing a wealth of historical documents and images in conjunction with dramatic and non-dramatic literary texts. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity during the early modern period.

Kathryn M. Moncrief is Associate Professor of English at Washington College, Maryland, USA.

Kathryn R. McPherson is Associate Professor of English at Utah Valley State College, USA.

General Editors Preface

Helen Ostovich, McMaster University

Performance assumes a string of creative, analytical, and collaborative acts that, in defiance of theatrical ephemerality, live on through records, manuscripts, and printed books. The monographs and essay collections in this series offer original research which addresses theatre histories and performance histories in the context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Of especial interest are studies in which womens activities are a central feature of discussion as financial or technical supporters (patrons, musicians, dancers, seamstresses, wigmakers, or gatherers), if not authors or performers per se. Welcome too are critiques of early modern drama that not only take into account the production values of the plays, but also speculate on how intellectual advances or popular culture affect the theatre.

The series logo, selected by my colleague Mary V. Silcox, derives from Thomas Combes duodecimo volume, The Theater of Fine Devices (London, 1592), Emblem VI, sig. B. The emblem of four masks has a verse which makes claims for the increasing complexity of early modern experience, a complexity that makes interpretation difficult. Hence the corresponding perhaps uneasy rise in sophistication:

Masks will be more hereafter in request,

And grow more deare than they did heretofore.

No longer simply signs of performance in play and jest, the mask has become the double face worn in earnest even by the best of people, in order to manipulate or profit from the world around them. The books stamped with this design attempt to understand the complications of performance produced on stage and interpreted by the audience, whose experiences outside the theatre may reflect the emblems argument:

Most men do use some colourd shift

For to conceal their craftie drift.

Centuries after their first presentations, the possible performance choices and meanings they engender still stir the imaginations of actors, audiences, and readers of early plays. The products of scholarly creativity in this series, I hope, will also stir imaginations to new ways of thinking about performance.

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Edited by

KATHRYN M. MONCRIEF

Washington College, USA

and

KATHRYN R. MCPHERSON

Utah Valley State College, USA

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson 2007

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson have asserted their moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Performing maternity in early modern England. (Studies in performance and early modern
drama) 1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616 Criticism and interpretation 2. Motherhood
in literature 3. English drama 17th century History and criticism 4. English drama
Early modern and Elizabethan, 15001600 History and criticism 5. Childbirth in
literature 6. Pregnancy in literature
I. Moncrief, Kathryn M. II. McPherson, Kathryn Read
822.309354

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Performing maternity in early modern England / edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R.
McPherson.
p. cm. (Studies in performance and early modern drama)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-7546-6117-7 (alk. paper)
1. English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 15001600History and criticism.
2. English drama17th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Motherhood in literature. 4.
Pregnancy in literature. 5. Paternity in literature. 6. Shakespeare, William, 15641616
Criticism and interpretation. 7. MotherhoodEnglandHistory16th century. 8. Motherhood
EnglandHistory17th century. I. Moncrief, Kathryn M. II. McPherson, Kathryn Read.

PR658.M68P47 2007
822.309354dc22

2007000574

ISBN 9780754661177 (hbk)

Contributing Editors

Kathryn M. Moncrief is an Associate Professor and Chair of English at Washington College. She has an article forthcoming in Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood, edited by Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavheh. She is currently at work on a book, Unruly Bodies: Performing Femininity in Early Modern England.

Kathryn R. McPherson is an Associate Professor of English at Utah Valley State College. She co-edited The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women (Bergin and Garvey, 1998) with Amy Benson Brown. She has also published articles on maternity in The Ben Jonson Journal and Thicker than Water: Brothers and Sisters in the Early Modern World. Her book, Refiguring Maternity in Early Modern England has been solicited and is under review.

Contributors

Robert Bell completed his doctorate at McMaster University, where he has taught as a sessional member of the faculty. His research focuses on censorship and the English theatre.

Douglas Brooks is Associate Professor of English at Texas A and M University and the Editor of the Shakespeare Yearbook. He is the author of From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge UP, 2000) and the editor of a collection of essays entitled

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