LEADER 03911nam 22007693 450 001 9910838239903321 005 20230102051116.0 010 $a1-4875-3896-0 010 $a1-4875-3897-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487538965 035 $a(CKB)4940000000615790 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6799066 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6799066 035 $a(DE-B1597)617196 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487538965 035 $a(OCoLC)1253401946 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_108995 035 $a(OCoLC)1289796661 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000615790 100 $a20211214d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCures for Chance $eAdoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton 210 1$aToronto :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (182 pages) 311 $a1-4875-0878-6 327 $aShakespeare'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. 330 $a"Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of familial structure, financial inheritance, and gendered familial authority. Because the practice of adoption circumvents sexual reproduction, its portrayal obliges audiences to reconsider ideas of nature and kinship. This study elucidates the ways in which adoptive familial relations were defined, described, and envisioned on stage, particularly in the works of Shakespeare and Middleton. In the plays in question, families and individual characters create, alter, and manage familial relations. Throughout Cures for Chance, adoption is considered in the broader socioeconomic and political climate of the period. Literary works and a wide range of other early modern texts--including treatises on horticulture and natural history and household and conduct manuals--are analysed in their historical and cultural contexts. Erin Ellerbeck argues that dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family by rendering the family unit a social construction rather than a biological certainty, and that in doing so, they evoke the alteration of nature by human hands that was already pervasive at the time."--$cProvided by publisher. 517 $aCures for Chance 606 $aAdoption in literature 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century $2bisacsh 608 $aLiterary criticism. 608 $aLiterary criticism. 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aA Chaste Maid in Cheapside. 610 $aMiddleton. 610 $aRenaissance drama. 610 $aShakespeare. 610 $aTitus Andronicus. 610 $aWomen Beware Women. 610 $aadoption. 610 $aalteration of nature. 610 $acultivation. 610 $aearly modern literature. 610 $afamily. 610 $areproduction. 610 $atheatre. 615 0$aAdoption in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century . 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aEllerbeck$b Erin$01727785 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838239903321 996 $aCures for Chance$94135620 997 $aUNINA