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'Household business' : domestic plays of early modern England /

'Household Business' traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its aesthetic configurations in relation to extra-literary discourses and practices that underwrote Renaissance ideologies of private life.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Comensoli, Viviana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Colección:Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Medieval and Tudor contexts
  • Fashioning marriage codes: 16th century Griseldas
  • Domestic tragedy and private life: Civility and the crisis of order ; "A woman killed with kindness" ; "Arden of Feversham" ; "A warning for fair women" ; "A Yorkshire tragedy" ; The menial household and the politics of plenty ; "Two lamentable tragedies"
  • Retrograde and preposterous: staging the witch/wife dyad
  • Developments in comedy: Prodigal husbands and patient wives ; The household, the brothel, and the house of correction.