1. Janet Adelman, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest (New York and London: Routledge, 1992), p. 2.
2. Adelman, Suffocating Mothers, p. 75. For an account of Adelman’s interpretation of Macbeth in Suffering Mothers, see Nicolas Tredell, Shakespeare: Macbeth: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism, Palgrave Macmillan Readers’ Guides to Essential Criticism series (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 138–42.
3. Philippa Berry, Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies, Feminist Readings of Shakespeare series (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 1.
4. Coppélia Kahn, Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women, Feminist Readings of Shakespeare series (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 1.
5. Madhavi Menon (ed.), ‘Introduction: Queer Shakes’, in Madhavi Menon (ed.), Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011), p. 9.