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Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama
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Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe
“Blood is thicker than water,” goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections? Thicker than Water examines the roots of this belief by studying the omnipresent discourse of bloodlines and kindred relations in the literature of early modern Europe.
Early modern discourses concerning kinship promoted the idea that similar bloodl...