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Birth Figures Shakespeare studies & criticism and I've learned something everyThe first full study of birth figures, a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins