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Thicker Than Water - Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama (Paperback) Loot Price: R867
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Thicker Than Water - Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama (Paperback): Lauren Weindling

Thicker Than Water - Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama (Paperback)

Lauren Weindling

Series: Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture

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Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe "Blood is thicker than water," goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections? Thicker than Water examines the roots of this belief by studying the omnipresent discourse of bloodlines and kindred relations in the literature of early modern Europe. Early modern discourses concerning kinship promoted the idea that similar bloodlines dictated greater love or affinity, stabilizing the boundaries of families and social classes, as well as the categories of ethnicity and race. Literary representations of romantic relationships were instrumental in such conceptions, and Lauren Weindling examines how drama from England, France, and Italy tests these assumptions about blood and love, exposing their underlying political function. Among the key texts that Weindling studies are Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Pierre Corneille's Le Cid, Giambattista della Porta's La Sorella and its English analog, Thomas Middleton's No Wit/Help Like a Woman's, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Each of these plays offers an extreme limit case for early modern notions of belonging and exclusion, through plots of love, courtship, and marriage, including blood feuds and incest. Moreover, they feature the voices of marginalized groups, unprivileged by these metrics and ideologies, and thus offer significant counterpoints to this bloody worldview. While most critical studies of blood onstage pertain to matters of guilt or violence, Thicker Than Water examines the work that blood does unseen in arbitrating social and emotional connections between persons, and thus underwriting our deepest forms of social organization.

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Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Release date: April 2023
Authors: Lauren Weindling
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-6101-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
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LSN: 0-8173-6101-4
Barcode: 9780817361013

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