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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.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements
1 Illegitimacy in Renaissance England
2 Bastardy and evil
3 Unnatural children
4 Natural Children
5 Heroic bastards
6 Bastards and theatre

Illegitimate Power Bastards in Renaissance Drama

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719080852, 978-0719080852
      ISBN10: 0719080851

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface and acknowledgements
      1 Illegitimacy in Renaissance England
      2 Bastardy and evil
      3 Unnatural children
      4 Natural Children
      5 Heroic bastards
      6 Bastards and theatre

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