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Illegitimate Power
Alison Findlay
其他書名
Bastards in Renaissance Drama
出版Manchester University Press, 1994
主題Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsPolitical Science / General
ISBN07190399169780719039911
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QX67AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Renaissance drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide range of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crisis in early modern England, reading them in relation to witchcraft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstandingly heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority.