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University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, Cambridge
An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures --...
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An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts -- Introduction: The Actions and Delays of Gendered Temporalities -- Critical and Conceptual Foundations -- The Early Modern Temporal Consciousness -- Classical and Biblical Influences -- Medical and Conduct Literature -- The Revenger's Tragedy: Time as Destroyer, Time as Revealer -- Taking Action -- Refusing Action -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1 Virtuous Delay: The Enduring Patient Wife -- Agency and Endurance in All's Well That Ends Well -- Defining and Performing Patience -- The Temporality of Patient Griselda -- Dekker, Chettle and Haughton's Patient Grissill -- Prostitutes, Shrews and Patient Husbands in The honest whore, Parts One and Two -- Too Slow, Too Fast: Temporal Markers of Female Sexual Virtue -- Shrewish Impatience and the Patient Husband -- Active Patience -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 Transgressive Action: The Impatient Prodigal Husband -- Prodigality as Action in the Second Tetralogy -- The Dual Temporality of Prodigality: The Wise Woman of Hoxton -- Policing Youth through Prodigality: The miseries of inforst mariage and The London prodigall -- The Anomalous Prodigal Husband: The faire maide of Bristow and How a man may chuse a good wife from a bad -- Patience Turns Prodigal -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 Waiting and Taking: The Temporally Conflicted Revenger -- Othello and the Dual Temporality of Revenge -- The Perpetual Deferral of Vengeance -- The Prodigal Intemperance of Revenge -- The Male Revenger: Action Legitimised -- The Female Revenger: Subversive Delay -- Authorising Male Delay, Condemning Female Action -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 The Delay's the Thing: Patience, Prodigality and Revenge in Hamlet -- Women Waiting and Not Waiting.
