Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama

Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama

by Alison Gail Findlay (Author)

Synopsis

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. -- .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 01 May 2009

ISBN 10: 0719080851
ISBN 13: 9780719080852