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This article attributes early modern emotional relationships between parents and children, as well as between marital partners, to the emergence in the period of family values. While the stability of the ideal family is defined in tomb sculpture, one of the period’s most widespread art forms, plays tell a story and therefore depend on impediments to stability. These are dramatised in the marital jealousy and parental cruelty of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. As tomb sculpture became more lifelike, however, it began to put on display the emotional intensity of family values, and in the process came to emphasise in another way a corresponding vulnerability in the new ideal.
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Belsey, C. (2002). Love and Death in Early Modern Marriage: The Winter’s Tale and Monumental Sculpture. In: Kasten, I., Stedman, G., Zimmermann, M. (eds) Querelles: Jahrbuch für Frauenforschung 2002. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02869-3_11
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