Janet Adelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Janet Adelman

Scholar, literary critic

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1941

Place of Birth: Mount Kisco, New York, United States

Date of Death: 06-Apr-2010

Profession: journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Janet Ann Adelman (January 28, 1941 – April 6, 2010) was a Shakespearean scholar, a literary critic, and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.Adelman’s most prominent works include book-length critiques of William Shakespeare’s plays presenting new psychoanalytic and feminist readings of Antony and Cleopatra and The Merchant of Venice in "The Common Liar: An Essay on 'Antony & Cleopatra'" (1973) and Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in 'The Merchant of Venice' (2008), respectively. Adelman authored another book, Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origins in Shakespeare’s Plays, Hamlet to the Tempest, (1992) that discusses maternal characters over many of Shakespeare’s works.