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100 1 $aFindlay, Alison,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93123791
245 10 $aIllegitimate power :$bbastards in Renaissance drama /$cAlison Findlay.
260 $aManchester ;$aNew York :$bManchester University Press :$bDistributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
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300 $a282 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
505 0 $a1. 'A great kindred in the kingdome': Illegitimacy in Renaissance England -- 2. Bastardy and evil -- 3. Unnatural children -- 4. Natural children -- 5. Heroic bastards -- 6. Bastards and theatre -- Appendix: Plays with bastard characters, 1588-1652.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aDrawing 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103081
650 0 $aIllegitimacy in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064286
650 0 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103082
600 10 $aShakespeare, William,$d1564-1616$xKnowledge and learning.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120996
650 0 $aIllegitimacy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064281
650 0 $aPatriarchy in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007420
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123990
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008413
650 0 $aFathers and sons in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047456
650 0 $aAuthority in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008614
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hPR658.I43$iF56 1994