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Janet Adelman

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Born: January 27 1941

Died: 0505 04 20102010

Janet Adelman was a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkley and Shakespeare scholar best known for her combination of psychoanalytic and feminist theory. She authored three major works on Shakespeare, including Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest , Common Liar: An Essay on Antony & Cleopatra and Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice , along with numerous articles and reviews. She was well respected as a teacher and as a member of the academic community both at Berkley, where she was the first woman to join the English Department, and nationally as a member of the Modern Language Association and the Shakespeare Association of America.
Adelman retired from Berkley in 2007 and sadly passed away in 2010 at the age of 69.

Janet Adelman

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 27 1941

Died: 0505 04 20102010

Janet Adelman was a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkley and Shakespeare scholar best known for her combination of psychoanalytic and feminist theory. She authored three major works on Shakespeare, including Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest , Common Liar: An Essay on Antony & Cleopatra and Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice , along with numerous articles and reviews. She was well respected as a teacher and as a member of the academic community both at Berkley, where she was the first woman to join the English Department, and nationally as a member of the Modern Language Association and the Shakespeare Association of America.
Adelman retired from Berkley in 2007 and sadly passed away in 2010 at the age of 69.

Books from Janet Adelman

Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest

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Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice

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Twentieth Century Interpretations of King Lear: A Collection of Critical Essays