Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and CultureSusquehanna University Press, 2006 - 293 páginas 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. |
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... woman whom he construes to be a witch . Finally , of course , it places the sympathies of the audience with the women ; since the specta- tors / readers are the only other people involved in the witch of Brainford scene who share the ...
... woman whom he construes to be a witch . Finally , of course , it places the sympathies of the audience with the women ; since the specta- tors / readers are the only other people involved in the witch of Brainford scene who share the ...
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... woman , change Command into obedience ; fear and niceness— The handmaids of all women , or , more truly , Woman its pretty self - into a waggish courage ; Ready in gibes , quick - answered , saucy , and As quarrelous as the weasel ...
... woman , change Command into obedience ; fear and niceness— The handmaids of all women , or , more truly , Woman its pretty self - into a waggish courage ; Ready in gibes , quick - answered , saucy , and As quarrelous as the weasel ...
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... woman being in labour or travail shall name any other to be the father of her child , than only he who is right and true father thereof ; and that I will not suffer any other body's child to be set , brought , or laid before any woman ...
... woman being in labour or travail shall name any other to be the father of her child , than only he who is right and true father thereof ; and that I will not suffer any other body's child to be set , brought , or laid before any woman ...
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Preface 75 | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Introduction | 21 |
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Alchemist All's ambiguous Ann Jeffries asserts associated audience Belarius Ben Jonson Bertram boy actor Catholic Catholicism changeling Christian Comedy Countess court critics cultural Cymbeline Daemonologie Dapper Demetrius demonic Diana Diane Purkiss discussion disguise Dunlop Early Modern England edited Elizabethan English Essays Faerie fairy belief fairy bride tradition fairy lore fairy queen fairyland Falstaff female feminine Folklore gender roles Guiderius healing Helena Hermia Herne the Hunter heroine human husband Iachimo Imogen invokes James Jeffries's John Jonson Katharine Briggs King Kirk liminal linked Literature London magic male marriage Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream midwives Mistress mortal narrative notes Oberon pagan Pitt play play's plot political popular Posthumus Posthumus's Protestant Puck puppet Puritans Reginald Scot Religion Renaissance Robert Routledge scene seventeenth century sexual Shakespeare social sociocultural spirits stage story supernatural theatrical Thomas tion Titania W. W. Greg Wales Welsh wife witchcraft witches Wives of Windsor woman women York