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Cures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.

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“Ellerbeck’s study makes a contribution to our understanding of family more generally and to ‘early modern concepts of familial possibility.’” -- Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *

Table of Contents
Introduction: Shaping the Family 1. Shakespeare’s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture 2. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 3. Adopted Bastards in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 4. Adoptive Names in Middleton’s Women Beware Women Afterword: In loco parentis Bibliography

Cures for Chance

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    A Hardback by Erin Ellerbeck

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 6 December 2021
      ISBN-13 9781487508784
      978-1487508784
      ISBN-10 1487508786
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      Literary reference works Theatre studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Cures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.

      Trade Review
      “Ellerbeck’s study makes a contribution to our understanding of family more generally and to ‘early modern concepts of familial possibility.’” -- Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Shaping the Family 1. Shakespeare’s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture 2. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus 3. Adopted Bastards in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 4. Adoptive Names in Middleton’s Women Beware Women Afterword: In loco parentis Bibliography

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