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Comedy, youth, manhood in early modern England / Ira Clark.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR658.Y6 C58 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Ira.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Youth in literature.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
- English drama (Comedy).
- Maturation (Psychology) in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Young men in literature.
- Men in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 170 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. Making a Match and Manhood 11
- "The process of [marital] ceremony converted men into householders and women into housekeepers. It made lads into masters and maids into dames." 16
- "I have thrust myself into this maze/ Happily to wive and thrive as best I may." 19
- 2. The Place of Academies of Conduct 29
- "A little academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art" 32
- "Acomedy" for "courtly qualities that are to be had for money" 35
- "The Authentick witt that made Blackfriers an Academy" 46
- 3. The Plight of Younger Brothers 55
- "[The] state [of younger brothers] is of all stations for gentlemen most miserable." His Father "taskes him to bee a Gentleman, and leaues him nothing to maintaine it." 56
- "Tis here, tis almost forg'd, which if it take, The world shall praise my wit, admire my fate." 65
- 4. The Thrill of the Widow Hunt 86
- "It is money that I want, why should I not marry the money?" 90
- "We shall ha' thee, after thou hast beene but a moneth marryed to one of 'hem, looke like the quartane ague ... She'll ha' conuey'd her state, safe enough from thee, an' she be a right widdow" 97
- "I thanke thee for my wife." 100
- 5. The Dilemma of Dueling 103
- The Book of Honour and Armes Dvell-Ease A Worde with Valiant Spiritts Shewing the abuse of Duells Paradoxes of Defence 107
- A Fair Quarrel? 121
- 6. Staging the Making of a Man 137
- Primary 155
- Secondary 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874138280
- OCLC:
- 50773420
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