Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - THES SP - not paginated ID - bbbc2177 T1 - "Chastity on the Early Modern Stage, 1611-1649" AU - Lander Johnson, Bonnie PY - 2013 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - "Focusing on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. . . describes the four tropes of chastity and their place in tragicomic experience." Argues that "the abrupt end of the cult of chastity and tragicomedy. . . must also be attributed to the efforts of pro-Parliamentary and Puritan writers who. . . sought to claim the tropes of chastity for their own rhetoric and cause." Published as Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (q.v.). ER -