Table of Contents

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Tragedies: The Duchess of Malfi and The Cruel Brother

Chapter Two: Tragicomedies: The Devil’s Law Case, The Twins and The Lovesick Court

Chapter Three: Comedies: Changes: or, Love in a Maze, Patient Grissil, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Ignoramus and Senile Odium

Chapter Four: Shakespearean Comedy: The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Daisy Murray is Higher Education Programme Developer for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Reviews

"As a new work on an often-discussed but rarely properly studied facet of early modern drama, Murray’s text is valuable, but where it shines is in its considera-tion of non-dramatic representation and culture. This book is undeniably within the realm of theatre and theatre history, but it is also a work of social and cultural history around ideas of conception, childbirth, science, and gender. As a resource for scholars thinking about drama, genre, families, twins, science, non-dramatic literary culture, or any one of a number of other specific subtopics, this text is a fresh, insightful volume that will surely open up new avenues of inquiry for its readers."- Jess Hamlet, University of Alabama, Early Theatre