Mother's Day "Deep Dives" via New York Shakespeare - panel discussion
REGARDING MOTHERS IN SHAKESPEARE, video of our discussion with Rodney Hakim, host of “Deep Dives” at New York Shakespeare, is now available in two parts at YouTube: Part 1: https://youtu.be/THvwuGYKQcA?si=fgn2EceaGkiQN8AJ Part 2: https://youtu.be/7-g43NcarOM?si=1WaoNEnAUgGtknTJ There are things I wish our discussion might have had more time for.... These include: 1. Among reasons for mothers often being absent in Shakespeare plays, one may have been that both monarchs Shakespeare lived under had their mothers executed. I might have extended this idea: If one is writing plays that one may perform before the monarch, one might downplay or omit the presence of mothers in deference to them. 2. Some assume that Lady Macbeth was never a mother, but in fact she refers to having nursed a babe, and often uses milk and nursing figuratively. Lady Macbeth in 1.7: “I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.” 3. In Hamlet, there are many referen...