Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance DramaManchester University Press, 1994 - 282페이지 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 range 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 crisis in early modern England, reading them in relation to witchcraft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstandingly heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority. |
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... cause of the house , and therefore is not the materiall cause of the childe The seedes [ male and female ] are shut and kept in the wombe : but the seede of the man doth dispose and prepare the seed of the woman to receive the forme ...
... cause of the house , and therefore is not the materiall cause of the childe The seedes [ male and female ] are shut and kept in the wombe : but the seede of the man doth dispose and prepare the seed of the woman to receive the forme ...
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... cause . At the end of the play he claims that it is not his bastardy but Alonzo's moral bastardy that is the real cause of the tragedy ( L4v ) . Gaspar exposes the sophisticated society of Seville as nothing more than an elaborately ...
... cause . At the end of the play he claims that it is not his bastardy but Alonzo's moral bastardy that is the real cause of the tragedy ( L4v ) . Gaspar exposes the sophisticated society of Seville as nothing more than an elaborately ...
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... cause of tragedy . The range of villains discussed in this chapter , to which Edmund provides a fitting conclusion , shows that the type can serve a variety of purposes . Popular associations between bastardy and unnaturalness are the ...
... cause of tragedy . The range of villains discussed in this chapter , to which Edmund provides a fitting conclusion , shows that the type can serve a variety of purposes . Popular associations between bastardy and unnaturalness are the ...
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