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Author:   Erin Ellerbeck
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9781487508784

ISBN 10:   1487508786
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   06 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Shaping the Family 1. Shakespeare's Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture 2. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 3. Adopted Bastards in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 4. Adoptive Names in Middleton's Women Beware Women Afterword: In loco parentis Bibliography

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Ellerbeck offers a rich and wholly engaging account of the lexicons of belonging and their relationships to nature. Focusing on Seneca's wonderful description of adoption as a 'cure for chance, ' this beautifully researched book explores the family unit as a contrived intervention in the poetics of nature and the imperatives of culture. Juxtaposing the work of Shakespeare and Middleton, Ellerbeck shows how early modern drama engages with the reconstitution of the family as an ethical and economic duty rather than a biological expectation. Thoughtful and provocative, Cures for Chance celebrates the power of kinship and the politics of kindness. - Charlotte Scott, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Erin Ellerbeck's elegant and sophisticated study explores the unstable concept of 'adoption' in early modern England. This non-biological category disrupted patrilineality and destabilized the very idea of the family in a culture organized primarily through blood-based lineage. Ellerbeck's insightful analyses of plays by Shakespeare and Middleton reveal how familial fault lines were staged, but not resolved. This important book illuminates the development of identity and the family in early modern culture. - William C. Carroll, Professor Emeritus of English, Boston University This informed and lively book shows that there were many kinds of adoptive kinship in early modern England and analyses how Shakespeare and his contemporary Middleton dramatize and critique some of them. Ellerbeck suggests their plays raise modern questions about how far revisions of the family and modifications of biological reproduction should go. - Marianne Novy, Professor Emerita of English, University of Pittsburgh

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Erin Ellerbeck is an assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria.

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