Birth Figures Shakespeare studies & criticism fear and laughter from both

fear and laughter from both her ‘family’ of nurses and the patients she encountered

as a young doctor

brighter place

classical foods eaten mostly in villages

The story has its beginnings in the awkward courtship of dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker and unwilling hero Hugh Darcy in the dusty country towns of rural Australia

Birth Figures Shakespeare studies & criticism fear and laughter from bothThe first full study of birth figures, a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins