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These other replies all seem valid to me, but they don't
necessarily get you too far with your paper. For a different
kind of answer (a symbolic/psychoanalytic one) look at
Janet Adelman's book "Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of
Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the
Tempest" which you should be able to find at a library.Even if you are unwilling to accept Adelman's premises about
the kinds of psychological meanings packed into the plays,
you will find her close-readings useful since they are all
about mothers.Posted by Cloten on April 17, 1997 at 11:06:06
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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