Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works : : In Medias Res / / Vanessa L. Rapatz.

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 180 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Novice?
  • Chapter 1: “Turn’d to a Nunnery”: Abigail’s Agency in The Jew of Malta
  • Chapter 2: Two Houses Both Alike: Walls and Women in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
  • Chapter 3: Romancing the Grate in Convent Dialogues
  • Chapter 4: Beyond the Grate: Repurposing Enclosure and Reforming Pleasure in Margaret Cavendish’s The Religious and The Convent of Pleasure
  • Chapter 5: “What Think You of a Nunnery Wall?”: Lifelines in Aphra Behn’s The Rover
  • Bibliography
  • Index