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To Yield or Die: The Power of the Pr...

Moyer, Holly Lynette.

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To Yield or Die: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	To Yield or Die: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare./
作者:	Moyer, Holly Lynette.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	422 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10124884
ISBN:	9781339829807

To Yield or Die: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare.
Moyer, Holly Lynette.

To Yield or Die: The Power of the Prisoner from Chaucer to Shakespeare. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 422 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.

Scholars examining captivity in the medieval and early modern periods have laid a strong foundation of work that explores both historical details (the layout of prisons, the laws of ransom) and individual captive voices (especially in martyr stories and captivity narratives). Recently, definitional and theoretical questions have risen out of such specific analyses. For example, what is the difference between a "captive" and a "slave"? Can captives be best categorized by the reason they are held, the duration of their loss of freedom, their social status, or something else?

ISBN: 9781339829807Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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520 $a In response to these challenges, To Yield or Die identifies and explores a persistent discourse about captive characters in English late medieval and early modern texts including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Malory's Le Morte Darthur; Spenser's Faerie Queene; Marlowe's Edward II, The Jew of Malta , and two Tamburlaine plays; and the works of Shakespeare (with particular focus on Richard II, Measure for Measure, and The Rape of Lucrece). When characters face the literal or figurative sword's point and are ordered to "yield or die," texts treat their answers as permanently characterizing choices. The discourse thus creates three categories of captive character based on those choices: those who yield, those who risk death by resisting, and those who reply illegibly (or not at all) and thus negate the question's definitional power. These categories operate within each story's world to explore selfhood and establish relationships; they also operate at the formal level of textual construction (characters who yield are almost never protagonists; illegible characters often provoke interpretive confusion for fellow characters and readers alike).
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