This book draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. Society’s u

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal. In this fascinating new stu

Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenon. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical and

Human twins have many meanings and different histories. They have been seen as gods and monsters, signs of danger, death, and sexual deviance. They are taken as