Böcker av Marianne Novy

Novy demonstrates how plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analysing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and romances and how they are acted out in the tragedies.

An exploration of adoption in literature, probing the cultural fictions that these literary representations have perpetuated Reading Adoption explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption, and reveals how these representations have contributed to general perceptions of adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents.