Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and CultureSusquehanna University Press, 2006 - 293 páginas Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. |
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... fairyland , positing that fairies were companions of the angels that fell from paradise with Satan and , therefore , subject to the torments of hell at the Last Judgment . Other theories about the nature of fairies aligned fairyland in ...
... fairyland , positing that fairies were companions of the angels that fell from paradise with Satan and , therefore , subject to the torments of hell at the Last Judgment . Other theories about the nature of fairies aligned fairyland in ...
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... FAIRYLAND " Fairyland is never here and now : it's always at a remove , and if the remove isn't time it must be place . It's a world of forbidden wishes surrounded by a magic wall of taboo which must be broken before we can enter it ...
... FAIRYLAND " Fairyland is never here and now : it's always at a remove , and if the remove isn't time it must be place . It's a world of forbidden wishes surrounded by a magic wall of taboo which must be broken before we can enter it ...
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... fairyland in the middle of the woods outside Athens . Vaguely envisioned somewhere in between the ce- lestial heavens and the pit of hell , fairyland could be anywhere and everywhere — the guts of mountains , the middle of country roads ...
... fairyland in the middle of the woods outside Athens . Vaguely envisioned somewhere in between the ce- lestial heavens and the pit of hell , fairyland could be anywhere and everywhere — the guts of mountains , the middle of country roads ...
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Preface 75 | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Introduction | 21 |
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Alchemist All's ambiguous Ann Jeffries asserts associated audience Belarius Ben Jonson Bertram boy actor Catholic Catholicism changeling Christian Comedy Countess court critics cultural Cymbeline Daemonologie Dapper Demetrius demonic Diana Diane Purkiss discussion disguise Dunlop Early Modern England edited Elizabethan English Essays Faerie fairy belief fairy bride tradition fairy lore fairy queen fairyland Falstaff female feminine Folklore gender roles Guiderius healing Helena Hermia Herne the Hunter heroine human husband Iachimo Imogen invokes James Jeffries's John Jonson Katharine Briggs King Kirk liminal linked Literature London magic male marriage Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream midwives Mistress mortal narrative notes Oberon pagan Pitt play play's plot political popular Posthumus Posthumus's Protestant Puck puppet Puritans Reginald Scot Religion Renaissance Robert Routledge scene seventeenth century sexual Shakespeare social sociocultural spirits stage story supernatural theatrical Thomas tion Titania W. W. Greg Wales Welsh wife witchcraft witches Wives of Windsor woman women York