Mères et fils dans le théâtre de la Renaissance anglaise by Marie-Hélène Besnault

“…Among the followers of Noah's sons dealing with their recalcitrant mother, we meet, in Nicholas Udall’s comic interlude Thersites, a son who first teases his mother, then seeks her protection, and ends with reproaches. Shakespeare's immediate successors, Middleton in The Revenger’s Tragedy and Webster in The White Devil, both dramatize relationships between mothers and sons, in several long scenes which we explore, because, unlike Shakespeare’s, they have received little attention.…”
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