The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage

ISBN-13: 9781107492578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Michelle M. Dowd

Opis

The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Recenzje

'The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage generates new kinds of questions while employing a sound and sophisticated form of both/and reasoning that Dowd proves the topic demands. … Dowd's feminist methodology is a welcome intervention into the arguably patrilineal terrain of Jonson studies. Dowd's research and the arguments she advances about the drama unlock the once open-and-shut case of primogeniture.' Ann C. Christensen, Modern Philology

Spis treści

Introduction: staging inheritance in early modern England; 1. Crooked titles and inconstant estates; 2. Revision and inaccessibility in The Duchess of Malfi; 3. Travel, displacement, and the prodigal son; 4. Dislocation and the loss of issue in Pericles; 5. Claustrophobia and urban affiliation in Volpone and Epicene; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.