Mothers in Shakespeare

1. The beginnings of a 'Motherless' world or
The crime against love as humanity
"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."
-- William Shakespeare, King Lear
"We wordly men
Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes."
-- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
The original mythology of the matriarchal society was that of the Goddess Earth in her three aspects: the white Goddess of birth and growth, the red Goddess of war and battle and the black Goddess of death and divination, praised and respected by men as her sons and lovers. …