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Mothers

Mother-son relationships are central to HAMLET and COREOLANUS, and significant to TITUS and RICHARD III. Mother-daughter is noteworthy in ROMEO and ALL'sWELL (where she's a mother-figure). The main answer is probably a paractical one: S wrote for a repertory company, and had to build plays around the actors on staff. Only for a brief period around 1605 did he seem to have an actor who could play strong mature women, and that's when he wrote all his strong mature women.

Posted by Hamlet on April 17, 1997 at 08:29:19
 In Reply to "MOTHERS in Bill's Plays, both present and absent" posted by Sponsler on April 16, 1997 at 16:07:55


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