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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487538965
035 _a(DE-B1597)617196
035 _a(OCoLC)1289796661
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEllerbeck, Erin
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCures for Chance :
_bAdoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton /
_cErin Ellerbeck.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c2021
300 _a1 online resource (184 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Shaping the Family --
_tChapter One. Shakespeare’s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture --
_tChapter Two. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus --
_tChapter Three. Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Adopted Bastards --
_tChapter Four. Adoptive Names in Middleton’s Women Beware Women --
_tAfterword: In loco parentis --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAdoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of familial structure, financial inheritance, and gendered familial authority. Because the practice of adoption circumvents sexual reproduction, its portrayal obliges audiences to reconsider ideas of nature and kinship. This study elucidates the ways in which adoptive familial relations were defined, described, and envisioned on stage, particularly in the works of Shakespeare and Middleton. In the plays in question, families and individual characters create, alter, and manage familial relations. Throughout Cures for Chance, adoption is considered in the broader socioeconomic and political climate of the period. Literary works and a wide range of other early modern texts – including treatises on horticulture and natural history and household and conduct manuals – are analysed in their historical and cultural contexts. Erin Ellerbeck argues that dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family by rendering the family unit a social construction rather than a biological certainty, and that in doing so, they evoke the alteration of nature by human hands that was already pervasive at the time.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)
650 0 _aAdoption in literature.
650 0 _aEnglish drama
_yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFamilies in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century .
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653 _aA Chaste Maid in Cheapside.
653 _aMiddleton.
653 _aRenaissance drama.
653 _aShakespeare.
653 _aTitus Andronicus.
653 _aWomen Beware Women.
653 _aadoption.
653 _aalteration of nature.
653 _acultivation.
653 _aearly modern literature.
653 _afamily.
653 _areproduction.
653 _atheatre.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781487538965
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487538965
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