Illegitimate Power Bastards in Renaissance Drama |
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| Author:
| Findlay, Alison |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7190-8085-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2009 |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $36.99 |
Book Description:
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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. -- .
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. -- .