Illegitimate Power
Alison Findlay
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Description for Illegitimate Power
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child.
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, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State.
The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719080852
SKU
V9780719080852
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About Alison Findlay
Alison Findlay is Professor of English at Lancaster University -- .
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