Mother Queens and Princely Sons

1. Introduction: Madonna, Child, and Early Modern Accolated Bodies
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2. “Above God Himselfe”: The Rogue Madonna and Her Daughter Queens
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3. “A Joyful Mother of Two Goodly Sons”: The Madonna of Ephesus and Her Disruptive Twins
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4. “So Troubled with the Mother”: The Politics of Pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi

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5. “Partner[s] of Greatness”: The Madonnas of Macbeth

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6. “A Shall Not Tread on Me”: Motherless Sons from Titus Andronicus to The Winter’s Tale

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7. Afterword
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Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Gender Studies, History of Religion, European History, Modern History, Social History