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Book Synopsis
The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Text
Lording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, Gentleman
The ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606
The Authorship Debate
Sources and Intertexts
Staging and Stagecraft
The Play
Genre
‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style
‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and Sexuality
The Death of Melancholy
THE FAMILY OF LOVE
APPENDICES
A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of Love
B ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart
C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578).
INDEX

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9780719088629
      978-0719088629
      ISBN-10 0719088623
      Also in:
      Poetry ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: plays and playwrights Entertainment Theatre studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION
      The Text
      Lording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, Gentleman
      The ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606
      The Authorship Debate
      Sources and Intertexts
      Staging and Stagecraft
      The Play
      Genre
      ‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style
      ‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and Sexuality
      The Death of Melancholy
      THE FAMILY OF LOVE
      APPENDICES
      A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of Love
      B ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart
      C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578).
      INDEX

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