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001481177 1001_ $$aMcMahon, Victoria L.
001481177 24510 $$aShakespeare, tragedy and menopause :$$bthe anxious womb /$$cVictoria L. McMahon.
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001481177 5050_ $$aIntro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1 "Bedlam Dames and Fowle Hags": Uterine Pathologies and Menopausal Ambiguities -- Contemporary Menopause -- Shakespearean Proto-Menopause -- Sociocultural Fears of the Ageing Woman -- Theatrical and Literary Archetypes of the Ageing Woman -- The Parameters of This Study -- Ontological and Semantic Challenges to Defining Early Modern "Menopause" -- Humoralism, Natural Science, and the Female Body -- Defining the Female Ageing Process -- Defining the Proto-Menopause "Event" -- The Proto-Menopausal Paradigm
001481177 5058_ $$aThe Ageing Woman and Sociocultural Anxieties -- Silencing the Hag -- Historical Review of Early Modern Menopause and Ageing -- Structural Rationale -- Notes -- 2 Gertrude and the Petrifying Gorgon Womb -- Introduction: Columba Chatry, Nostradamus, and the Stone Baby -- "The Heyday in the Blood Should Be Tame": Furor Uterinus and Suffocation of the Womb -- The Basilisk Gaze: Ocular Fascination and the Heating Womb -- Petrifying Older Women: Niobe, Hecuba, and Medusa -- "Destroy Your Sight": The Old Woman in the Mirror -- Silencing Through Petrification: Medusa's Stare -- Notes
001481177 5058_ $$a3 Tamora and the Invasive Vegetable Womb -- Introduction: "Gone to Seed," the Vegetable Madonna and Proto-Menopausal Pregnancy -- Fears of the Parthenogenic Womb -- The Botanical Discourse of Alien Stock and Invasive Species -- "Base Fruit": Of Bastards and Grafting -- "In Due Season": That Strumpet Fortune and Father Time -- Silencing by Consumption -- Notes -- 4 Volumnia and the Sacrificial Animal Womb -- Introduction: The Dog and the Woman at the Dissecting Table -- "Like Some Animal Within an Animal": The Wandering Womb and Plethora
001481177 5058_ $$a"She's a Very Dog to the Commonalty": The Bitch's Animal Instinct -- "The Lamb that Baas like a Bear": The Danger of the Female Mouth -- Blood-sports and Bear-baiting: Purging the Animal Womb -- Notes -- 5 Lady Macbeth and the Envious Womb -- Introduction: "Fit Food for Spite" -- The Proto-Menopausal Female: Envy, Madness, and other Passions -- Thomas Wright and Early Modern Notions of the Psychosomatic -- "Bloody Instruction": How Invidia Worked -- Melancholy: Invidia's Humoral Sister -- Reason as Prophylaxis -- Abject Consumption: The Proto-Menopausal Female and Diabolical Foodstuffs
001481177 5058_ $$aSilencing Through Self-Cannibalization -- Notes -- 6 Menopausal Cleopatra and the Hybrid Cyborg Womb -- Introduction: "Dreams of a New Heaven and Earth" -- From Automaton to Cyborg -- Mechanical Theory, Mechanical Metaphor -- "To Set a Bourn": Reckoning the Immeasurable Womb -- "In the Lap of Egypt": Masturbation, Strangulation, and Precipitation of the Womb -- The Perpetual Sex Machine: Isis and her Mechanical Phallus Antony -- "A Cistern for Scaled Snakes": The Self-Replicating Womb -- Silencing the Proto-Menopausal Dream: Descartes Kills the Cyborg -- Notes -- 7 Conclusion
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001481177 520__ $$aShakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older womans body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as menopause. Although menopause was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large. Born and raised in Warwickshire, Dr. V. L. McMahon holds advanced degrees in Education, English, and Theatre. As an arts educator for over thirty years, McMahon has written, taught, and implemented Drama and English curricula in Canadas public school system. Having lectured in the Faculties of Theatre and English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, McMahon is also an actor, director, playwright, and dramaturge and holds a PhD from the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.
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