Sara Frances Burdorff is an independent scholar and associate of the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. She has a PhD in English from UCLA and an MPhil in Renaissance English from Cambridge University. In addition to Homer, Shakespeare, mothers, and monsters, her other research interests include Old English riddles and poetry. She has also appeared in public media as a myth and folklore expert on cryptids and other mysterious phenomena.

• Introduction Part I: Mother, Warrior, Monster Chapter 1. The Monstrosity of Woman and Belly Chapter 2. The Warrior at War Chapter 3. Engendering the Hero: Destruction, Generation, and Kleos Aphthiton Part II: Troy and Its Aftermath: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in the Ancient World Chapter 4. For the Sake of Helen Chapter 5. Clytemnestra and the Furies Chapter 6. Hecuba, Queen of Troy Part III: Elizabethan Anxieties: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in Shakespeare Introduction Shakespeare and the Iliadic Belly-Monstrous Chapter 7. Titus Andronicus: Authorizing Warrior and Monster Chapter 8. 1–3 Henry VI and Richard III: The Mother’s Creatures Chapter 9. Coriolanus: A Return to the Source

Sara Frances Burdorff is an independent scholar and associate of the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. She has a PhD in English from UCLA and an MPhil in Renaissance English from Cambridge University. In addition to Homer, Shakespeare, mothers, and monsters, her other research interests include Old English riddles and poetry. She has also appeared in public media as a myth and folklore expert on cryptids and other mysterious phenomena.

• Introduction Part I: Mother, Warrior, Monster Chapter 1. The Monstrosity of Woman and Belly Chapter 2. The Warrior at War Chapter 3. Engendering the Hero: Destruction, Generation, and Kleos Aphthiton Part II: Troy and Its Aftermath: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in the Ancient World Chapter 4. For the Sake of Helen Chapter 5. Clytemnestra and the Furies Chapter 6. Hecuba, Queen of Troy Part III: Elizabethan Anxieties: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in Shakespeare Introduction Shakespeare and the Iliadic Belly-Monstrous Chapter 7. Titus Andronicus: Authorizing Warrior and Monster Chapter 8. 1–3 Henry VI and Richard III: The Mother’s Creatures Chapter 9. Coriolanus: A Return to the Source

Sara Frances Burdorff is an independent scholar and associate of the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. She has a PhD in English from UCLA and an MPhil in Renaissance English from Cambridge University. In addition to Homer, Shakespeare, mothers, and monsters, her other research interests include Old English riddles and poetry. She has also appeared in public media as a myth and folklore expert on cryptids and other mysterious phenomena.

• Introduction Part I: Mother, Warrior, Monster Chapter 1. The Monstrosity of Woman and Belly Chapter 2. The Warrior at War Chapter 3. Engendering the Hero: Destruction, Generation, and Kleos Aphthiton Part II: Troy and Its Aftermath: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in the Ancient World Chapter 4. For the Sake of Helen Chapter 5. Clytemnestra and the Furies Chapter 6. Hecuba, Queen of Troy Part III: Elizabethan Anxieties: Mothers, Warriors, and Monsters in Shakespeare Introduction Shakespeare and the Iliadic Belly-Monstrous Chapter 7. Titus Andronicus: Authorizing Warrior and Monster Chapter 8. 1–3 Henry VI and Richard III: The Mother’s Creatures Chapter 9. Coriolanus: A Return to the Source