Monarchy and incest in Renaissance England literature, culture, kinship, and kingship
In dissolving his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII claimed that Catherine's brief marriage to Henry's deceased brother, Arthur, had rendered the subsequent union incestuous. Henry's next marriage could be called incestuous as well, for Anne Boleyn's sister Mary had bee...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Philadelphia
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
1992
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| Schriftenreihe: | New cultural studies series
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Geschichte 1600-1700
> Geschichte 1500-1600
> Geschichte 1559-1658
> Geschichte 1500-1700
> Incest
> Monarchie
> Toneelstukken
> Drama
> Geschichte
> Politik
> English literature
> History and criticism
> Incest in literature
> Kings and rulers in literature
> Monarchy in literature
> Politics and literature
> History
> Renaissance
> Literatur
> Englisch
> Inzest
> Großbritannien
> Great Britain
> Kings and rulers
> Politics and government
> Biografie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In dissolving his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII claimed that Catherine's brief marriage to Henry's deceased brother, Arthur, had rendered the subsequent union incestuous. Henry's next marriage could be called incestuous as well, for Anne Boleyn's sister Mary had been the king's mistress before her. But early rumor hinted at an even darker incestuous connection between Henry and Anne; she was, some charged, not only the king's lover, but his illegitimate daughter. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England argues that a preoccupation with incest is built into the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry VIII's divorce and succession legislation through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court. Boehrer contends that themes of incest appear irregularly and prominently in the imaginative literature of the period. Some fifty extant plays from 1559 to 1658 deal either explicitly or implicitly with the subject. Incest emerges as a structural motif in texts as diverse as The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, and figures at least implicitly in nondramatic works by Jonson, Chapman, Shakespeare, and others. Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England explores the response to, and modification of cultural anxieties regarding family structure. It is a brilliant and original work that will be of interest to scholars and students of English Renaissance literature and history, as well as of cultural studies. |
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| Beschreibung: | VI, 189 S. |
| ISBN: | 0812231341 0-8122-3134-1 |