| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Secret marriages in Renaissance literature, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Marriage in literature.
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Clandestinity (Canon law)
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Clandestinity (Canon law)
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English literature -- Early modern.
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Marriage in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020015144 |
| ISBN |
9781501753480 |
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1501753487 |
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9781501753497 |
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1501753495 |
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