'Household Business' : Domestic Plays of Early Modern England /

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'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
Autor principal: Comensoli, Viviana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Middle class in literature.
Literature and society.
Families in literature.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama.
Domestic drama, English.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Familles dans la litterature.
Theâtre anglais > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Domestic drama, English > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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.

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