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Irregular Unions : Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature /

Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examine...

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Huvudskapare: Cleland, Katharine (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Ämnen:
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Religious Studies.
Literary Studies.
England.
Marriage in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Clandestinity (Canon law)
Electronic books.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Making a Clandestine Match in Early Modern English Literature
  • 1. Reforming Clandestine Marriage in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I
  • 2. "Wanton Loves and Young Desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation
  • 3. Sacred Ceremonies and Private Contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint
  • 4. "Lorenzo and His Infidel": Elopement and the Cross-Cultural Household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
  • 5. "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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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