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Illegitimate Power: Bastards in Renaissance Drama
Illegitimate Power Bastards in Renaissance Drama
Author: Alison Findlay
In Renaissance drama, the bastard is often an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. Drawing on a wide range of play texts, 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 the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719039911
ISBN-10: 0719039916
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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