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dc.contributor.advisorHutson, Lorna
dc.contributor.authorHolmes, Rachel E.
dc.coverage.spatialx, 546 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-25T12:33:02Z
dc.date.available2015-03-25T12:33:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-15
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6318
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues that the popularity of the clandestine marriage plot in English and Spanish drama following the Reformation corresponds closely to developments and emerging conflicts in European matrimonial law. My title, ‘casos de honra,’ or ‘honour cases’, unites law and drama in a way that captures this argument. Taken from the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s El arte nuevo (1609), a treatise on his dramatic practice, the phrase has been understood as a description of the honour plots so common in Spanish Golden Age drama, but ‘casos’ [cases] has a further, and related, legal meaning. Casos de honra are cases touching honour, whether portrayed on stage or at law, a European rather than a strictly Spanish phenomenon, and clandestine marriages are one such example. I trace the genealogy of three casos de honra from their recognisable origins in Italian novelle, through Italian, French, Spanish, and English adaptations, until their final early modern manifestations on the English and Spanish stage. Their seeming differences, and often radical divergences in plot can be explained with reference to their distinct, but related, legal concerns.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectLaw & literatureen_US
dc.subjectRenaissance studiesen_US
dc.subjectComparative literatureen_US
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen_US
dc.subjectSpanish literatureen_US
dc.subjectTheatre studiesen_US
dc.subject.lccPR646.H76
dc.subject.lcshEnglish drama--History and criticism--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600en_US
dc.subject.lcshSpanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticismen_US
dc.subject.lcshLaw and literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshHonor in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshComparative literature--English and Spanishen_US
dc.subject.lcshComparative literature--Spanish and Englishen_US
dc.titleCasos de honra : honouring clandestine contracts and Italian novelle in early modern English and Spanish dramaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2024-11-03en_US
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 3rd November 2024en_US


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