LEADER 03942oam 22006254a 450 001 9910524692403321 005 20230621140227.0 010 $a1-5017-5349-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501753497 035 $a(CKB)5590000000443457 035 $a(OCoLC)1152357153 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse93053 035 $a(DE-B1597)567516 035 $a(OCoLC)1243310330 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501753497 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6267798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6267798 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69517 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000443457 100 $a20210324h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIrregular Unions$eClandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature /$fKatharine Cleland 210 $cCornell University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource 210 p.) 311 $a1-5017-5348-7 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Making a Clandestine Match in Early Modern English Literature --$t1. Reforming Clandestine Marriage in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I --$t2. "Wanton Loves and Young Desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation --$t3. Sacred Ceremonies and Private Contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint --$t4. "Lorenzo and His Infidel": Elopement and the Cross-Cultural Household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice --$t5. "Are You Fast Married?": Elopement and Turning Turk in Shakespeare's Othello --$tConclusion Incestuous Clandestine Marriage in John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aKatharine 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 examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors use clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grapple with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, she finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 606 $aMarriage$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aReligion$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLiterature$xStudy and teaching 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aClandestinity (Canon law) 607 $aEngland$xSocial life and customs 610 $aSecret marriages in Renaissance literature, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 615 0$aMarriage$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aClandestinity (Canon law) 676 $a820.9/3543 700 $aCleland$b Katharine$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01203263 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524692403321 996 $aIrregular Unions$92777465 997 $aUNINA