From Epistle of Subversion to Corporealized Text: The Letter and Literacy in Arden of Faversham (1592)
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The expansion of literacy through the development of an education system and print boosted social mobility in early modern England. Arden of Faversham (1592), on the surface, is a typical early modern domestic tragedy of a cuckold, Arden, his adulterous wife, Alice, and her lover, Mosby, which ends with the murder of Arden. At the same time, this work reflects how the social change triggered by the spread of literacy and writing culture influenced the patriarchy as well as social hierarchy. My paper foregrounds two roles of “the letter” in Arden of Faversham—the basis of written language and correspondence—and explores how protagonists utilize, manipulate, or even corporealize the letter. Arden, as an example of the established gentry, depends upon the authority of a written document to claim his ownership of property and simultaneously strives to hide the textual representation of his cuckoldry despite his obvious failure as part of the patriarchy. Alice, as an embodiment of dangerous female desire, manipulates the letter in a destructive and deceptive way, which is represented as a threat to patriarchal order as well as established class order.
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The expansion of literacy through the development of an education system and print boosted social mobility in early modern England. Arden of Faversham (1592), on the surface, is a typical early modern domestic tragedy of a cuckold, Arden, his adulterous wife, Alice, and her lover, Mosby, which ends with the murder of Arden. At the same time, this work reflects how the social change triggered by the spread of literacy and writing culture influenced the patriarchy as well as social hierarchy. My paper foregrounds two roles of “the letter” in Arden of Faversham—the basis of written language and correspondence—and explores how protagonists utilize, manipulate, or even corporealize the letter. Arden, as an example of the established gentry, depends upon the authority of a written document to claim his ownership of property and simultaneously strives to hide the textual representation of his cuckoldry despite his obvious failure as part of the patriarchy. Alice, as an embodiment of dangerous female desire, manipulates the letter in a destructive and deceptive way, which is represented as a threat to patriarchal order as well as established class order.
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