{"product_id":"cures-for-chance-adoptive-relations-in-shakespeare-and-middleton-hardback-9781487508784","title":"Cures for Chance; Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardback) 9781487508784","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCures for Chance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAdoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErin Ellerbeck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508784\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.7 cm, 0.41 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Ellerbeck\u0026amp;#x2019;s study makes a contribution to our understanding of family more generally and to \u0026amp;#x2018;early modern concepts of familial possibility.\u0026amp;#x2019;\" - Jonathan Locke Hart, Shandong University (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation \/ Renaissance et Réforme\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. \u003ci\u003eCures for Chance\u003c\/i\u003e explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of familial structure, financial inheritance, and gendered familial authority. Because the practice of adoption circumvents sexual reproduction, its portrayal obliges audiences to reconsider ideas of nature and kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study elucidates the ways in which adoptive familial relations were defined, described, and envisioned on stage, particularly in the works of Shakespeare and Middleton. In the plays in question, families and individual characters create, alter, and manage familial relations. Throughout \u003ci\u003eCures for Chance\u003c\/i\u003e, adoption is considered in the broader socioeconomic and political climate of the period. Literary works and a wide range of other early modern texts – including treatises on horticulture and natural history and household and conduct manuals – are analysed in their historical and cultural contexts. Erin Ellerbeck argues that dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family by rendering the family unit a social construction rather than a biological certainty, and that in doing so, they evoke the alteration of nature by human hands that was already pervasive at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Shaping the Family\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Shakespeare\u0026amp;#x2019;s Adopted Children and the Language of Horticulture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Animal Parenting in Shakespeare\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Adopted Bastards in \u003cem\u003eA Chaste Maid in Cheapside\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Adoptive Names in Middleton\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eWomen Beware Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: In loco parentis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52742525976856,"sku":"9781487508784","price":26.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cures-for-chance-adoptive-relations-in-shakespeare-and-middleton-hardback-9781487508784","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}