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Author Schmiga, Friederike, author

Title Unnatural and unconventional liaisons in English renaissance drama : the Duchess of Malfi, Women beware women and 'Tis a pity she's a whore / Friederike Schmiga
Published Nordhausen : Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Poetry, music and art ; Band 7
Poetry, music and art ; Bd. 7.
Contents Cover; Titelei; Impressum; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Preface by Monika Fludernik ; Acknowledgement; 1 Introduction; 2 Unnatural and Unconventional Liaisons; 2.1 Nature and Convention; 2.2 Deviation and Transgression; 2.3 Wives and Whores; 3 The Duchess of Malfi; 3.1 The Duchess and Antonio; 3.1.1 The Duchess -- A "Lusty Widow"?; 3.1.2 Merit versus Birth; 3.1.3 Antonio the "Misruler"?; 4 Women Beware Women; 4.1 The Ward and Isabella; 4.1.1 Marriage Enforced; 4.1.2 Disparity between the Spouses; 4.1.3 Firmly in Hippolito's Hands; 4.1.4 Isabella's Motivation; 4.1.5 The Bride on Display
4.2 Isabella and Hippolito4.2.1 Incest; 4.2.2 Betrayed by Livia; 4.2.3 Adultery; 4.3 Leantio and Bianca; 4.3.1 Leantio's Conception of the Marriage as Theft; 4.3.2 Social Mobility; 4.3.3 Bianca's Consent?; 4.3.4 Too Much Restraint; 4.3.5 Leantio's Extremeness; 4.4 Bianca and the Duke; 4.4.1 Caught in Livia's Trap; 4.4.2 Violent Beginning; 4.4.3 Bianca the "Strumpet"?; 4.4.4 Moving into Marriage; 4.5 Leantio and Livia; 4.5.1 Livia's Downfall; 4.5.2 Courtship or Purchase?; 4.5.3 Livia -- A "Lusty Widow"?; 5 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; 5.1 Giovanni and Annabella; 5.1.1 Incest; 5.1.2 Secret Marriage?
5.1.3 The Vow of Loyalty5.1.4 Giovanni's "Idolatry"; 5.2 Annabella and Soranzo; 5.2.1 Betrayal of Hippolita; 5.2.2 Marriage Enforced?; 5.2.3 Annabella's Reversal; 5.2.4 Soranzo's Character; 6 Conclusion; 7 References; 7.1 Editions of the Plays; 7.2 Bibliography
Summary Friederike Schmiga studied English literature, linguistics and philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh. Her academic interests include the history of medieval philosophy and English Renaissance literature. She is currently doing research at the Università degli Studi di Bari and the KU Leuven with a doctoral project on the notion of intellectual curiosity in Augustine and its transformation in the thirteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Monika Fludernik Acknowledgement 1 Introduction 2 Unnatural and Unconventional Liaisons 2.1 Nature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Webster, John, 1580?-1625? Duchess of Malfi.
Middleton, Thomas, -1627. Women beware women
Ford, John, 1586-approximately 1640. 'Tis a pity she's a whore
SUBJECT Duchess of Malfi (Webster, John) fast
Women beware women (Middleton, Thomas) fast
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Renaissance -- England
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Renaissance
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783869457901
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3883099805
9783883099804