1st Edition
Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England
By Helen Vella Bonavita
Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving construction and representation of British national identity in prose and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Through close... Read more
Table of Contents.
Introduction
Chapter 1: ‘Now attest that those whom you call’d fathers did beget you’
Chapter 2: ‘Give Grandam Kingdom’: King John
Chapter 3: ‘Gelded of his patrimony’: Richard II
Chapter 4: ‘Gave you kingdom: called you children’: King Lear
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Helen Vella Bonavita is Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
