Illegitimate Power - Bastards in Renaissance Drama

Informationen zum Autor Richard Dutton is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster Klappentext Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wide rage of play texts! Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements1 Illegitimacy in Renaissance England2 Bastardy and evil3 Unnatural children4 Natural Children5 Heroic bastards6 Bastards and theatre

Product details

• Authors: Alison Findlay, Alison Gail (Professor of Renaissance Lit Findlay
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9780719080852
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8085-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies