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Cures for Chance - Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover)
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Cures for Chance - Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and Middleton (Hardcover)
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Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly,
what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance
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. This 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 Cures for
Chance, 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.
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