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Article: Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture. By CATHERINE BELSEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xvii+203 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling].
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Catherine Belsey locates Shakespeare at a moment in the early modern period when civic legislation and reformation church doctrine fostered what is now called the nuclear family. Different from the looser, multi-generational clan, the new family was knit together by ties of affection and eventually became the two-parent, ...