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Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith
Regina Buccola
其他書名
Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture
出版
Susquehanna University Press
, 2006
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion
Body, Mind & Spirit / Celtic Spirituality
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN
1575911035
9781575911038
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=57U6Z18AWe0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.