Irregular unions : clandestine marriage in early modern English literature /

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"Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of the practice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cleland, Katharine, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Temas:
1500-1700
Marriage in literature.
Clandestinity (Canon law)
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Clandestinité (Droit canonique)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature > Early modern
Marriage in literature
Secret marriages in Renaissance literature, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.
Biography
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reforming clandestine marriage in Spenser's Faerie queene, book I
  • "Wanton loves and young desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation
  • Sacred ceremonies and private contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A lover's complaint
  • "Lorenzo and his infidel": elopement and the cross-cultural household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
  • "Are you fast married?": elopement and turning Turk in Shakespeare's Othello
  • Conclusion: incestuous clandestine marriage in John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore.

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