| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Reforming clandestine marriage in Spenser's Faerie queene, book I -- "Wanton loves and young desires": Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Chapman's Continuation -- Sacred ceremonies and private contracts in Spenser's Epithalamion and Shakespeare's A lover's complaint -- "Lorenzo and his infidel": elopement and the cross-cultural household in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice -- "Are you fast married?": elopement and turning Turk in Shakespeare's Othello -- Conclusion: incestuous clandestine marriage in John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore. |
| Summary |
"Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England. Augmenting recent literary and historical studies of marriage, the book constitutes an examination of the practice in a variety of poetic and dramatic genres."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature. |
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Clandestinity (Canon law)
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Clandestinity (Canon law) |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature -- Early modern. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Indexed Term |
Secret marriages in Renaissance literature, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser. |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cleland, Katharine, 1982- Irregular unions Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021] 9781501753473 (DLC) 2020015143 |
| ISBN |
9781501753480 (epub) |
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1501753487 |
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9781501753497 (pdf) |
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1501753495 |
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9781501753473 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501753497 |
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