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03867aam a2200493 i 4500 001 3FF36ECC072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210320t20222022onca b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021351887 020 $a 1487508786 020 $a 9781487508784 035 $a (OCoLC)1242466685 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d XII $d OCLCO $d DLC $d JNA $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a PR3069.F35 $b E45 2022 055 0 $a PR3069.F35 $b E45 2022 082 04 $a 822.3/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Ellerbeck, Erin, $e author. 245 10 $a Cures for chance : $b adoptive relations in Shakespeare and Middleton / $c Erin Ellerbeck. 246 30 $a Adoptive relations in Shakespeare and Middleton 264 1 $a Toronto : $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 171 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 520 $a "Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of familial structure, financial inheritance, and gendered familial authority. Because the practice of adoption circumvents sexual reproduction, its portrayal obliges audiences to reconsider ideas of nature and kinship. This study elucidates the ways in which adoptive familial relations were defined, described, and envisioned on stage, particularly in the works of Shakespeare and Middleton. In the plays in question, families and individual characters create, alter, and manage familial relations. Throughout Cures for Chance, adoption is considered in the broader socioeconomic and political climate of the period. Literary works and a wide range of other early modern texts--including treatises on horticulture and natural history and household and conduct manuals--are analysed in their historical and cultural contexts. Erin Ellerbeck argues that dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family by rendering the family unit a social construction rather than a biological certainty, and that in doing so, they evoke the alteration of nature by human hands that was already pervasive at the time."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Shaping the family -- Shakespeare's adopted children and the language of horticulture -- Animal parenting in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus -- Middleton's A chaste maid in cheapside and adopted bastards -- Adoptive names in Middleton's Women beware women -- Afterword: In loco parentis. 600 10 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Middleton, Thomas, $d -1627 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Middleton, Thomas, $d -1627. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01834808 600 17 $a Shakespeare, William, $d 1564-1616. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029048 648 7 $a 1500-1600 $2 fast 650 0 $a English drama $y Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Families in literature. 650 0 $a Adoption in literature. 650 7 $a Adoption in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00797128 650 7 $a English drama $x Early modern and Elizabethan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710950 650 7 $a Families in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920365 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ellerbeck, Erin. $t Cures for chance. $d Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 $z 9781487538972 $z 9781487538972 $w (OCoLC)1253401946 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117024106.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3FF36ECC072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search