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Possible Pregnancy and All’s Well’s Uncertain Ends
Abstract:In All’s Well That Ends Well, Helen announces a possible pregnancy: it proliferates interpretations and cannot be confirmed or disproven. Recognizing Helen’s pregnancy as possible makes retroactively evident the play’s fracturing patriarchal power structure, impotent model of cultural reproduction, and recursive temporality. Helen and Bertram face an excess of parental figures, biological and surrogate, who trouble familial roles and interrupt the patrilineal inheritance they advocate. Lineal descent and linear time intertwine and preclude them from copying their elders or inaugurating a new generation to produce stability. Shakespeare dangles biological reproduction as a panacea but permanently defers it.
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.