By Helen Vella Bonavita
ISBN-10: 1409420310
ISBN-13: 9781409420316
This research considers the determine of the bastard within the context of analogies of the kinfolk and the country in early smooth England. The trope of illegitimacy, greater than being easily a story or character-driven factor, is an important part within the evolving building and illustration of British nationwide identification in prose and drama of the 16th and early 17th century. via shut analyzing of various performs and prose texts, the ebook deals readers new perception into the semiotics of bastardy and ideas of nationwide identification in early sleek England, and displays on modern problems with citizenship and identification. the writer examines play texts of the interval together with Bale's King Johan, Peele's The not easy Reign of John, and Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear in the context of a range of felony, spiritual, and polemical texts. In so doing, she illuminates the level to which the determine of the bastard and, extra as a rule the trope of illegitimacy, existed as a different discourse in the wider discursive framework of family members and nation.
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