Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Part I Mother, Warrior, Monster
6. 1. The Monstrosity of Woman and Belly 17
7. 2. The Warrior at War 33
8. 3. Engendering the Hero: Destruction, Generation, and Kleos Aphthiton 59
9. Part II Troy and Its Aftermath: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in the Ancient World
10. 4. For the Sake of Helen 83
11. 5. Clytemnestra and the Furies 99
12. 6. Hecuba, Queen of Troy 125
13. Part III Elizabethan Anxieties: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in Shakespeare
14. Introduction: Shakespeare and the Iliadic Belly-Monstrous 149
15. 7. Titus Andronicus: Authorizing Warrior and Monster 163
16. 8. 1–3 Henry VI and Richard III: The Mother’s Creatures 209
17. 9. Coriolanus: A Return to the Source 253
18. Bibliography 283
19. Index of Subjects 301
20. Index Locorum 319
21. Index Verborum 335