Illegitimacy And The National Family In Early Modern England - 9781409420316

Giving sustained consideration to the trope of the bastard in literature, this study interrogates the conceptual links between illegitimacy and national identity within sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English society as displayed in contemporary drama and prose. Reading a range of dramatic texts in the context of legal, religious and polemical writings, the book offers new insight into the semiotics of bastardy and concepts of national identity in early modern England.

• | Author: Helen Vella Bonavita
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1409420310
• | ISBN-13: 9781409420316