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Book SynopsisCures 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 ContentsIntroduction: 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
