Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Craik, Shakespearean Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England SP - 85-100 ID - bbbc354 T1 - "Conceiving Tragedy" AU - Pollard, Tanya PY - 2013 DA - 2013 KW - pregnancy KW - body KW - metatheater KW - emotion LA - English AB - "Examines references to pregnancy in Hamlet as taking part in a long-running literary conversation about tragedy, affect, and the female body" and "argues that Hamlet's metatheatrical meditations on tragedy confront an inherited understanding of the pregnant body's susceptibility to passionate emotion, and reformulate this model in order to imagine how a male tragic protagonist might effectively move audiences." ER -