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Author Hutson, Lorna.

Title The usurer's daughter : male friendship and fictions of women in sixteenth-century England / Lorna Hutson.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 295 pages)
Women language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on transcriptions, references and abbreviations; INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship; Mental husbandry; THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS; ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitia; Anxieties of textual access; FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and 'romantic' fiction; USURERS' DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s; The theatre of clandestine marriage; HOUSEHOLD STUFF Terence in the Reformation.
Summary In a brilliant and persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson provides startling new readings of Shakespeare, illuminates how social relations were textualized, and focuses on the central importance of the history of the representation of women.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William.
English literature -- Classical influences.
English literature -- Classical influences.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Humanists -- England.
Humanists.
England.
Men in literature.
Men in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hutson, Lorna. Usurer's daughter. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 (DLC) 93028752
ISBN 9780203215609
0203215605
9780415050494
0415050499
9781134715794 (electronic book)
113471579X (electronic book)
0203215605
0415050499