Cures for Chance : : Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton / / Erin Ellerbeck.
Adoption 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 gende...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Shaping the Family
- Chapter One. Shakespeare’s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture
- Chapter Two. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
- Chapter Three. Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Adopted Bastards
- Chapter Four. Adoptive Names in Middleton’s Women Beware Women
- Afterword: In loco parentis
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index