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UNINA9910814498003321 |
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Comensoli Viviana |
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Titolo |
'Household business' : domestic plays of early modern England / / Viviana Comensoli |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999 |
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©1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-5801-0 |
1-4426-2108-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England |
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Soggetti |
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Domestic drama, English - History and criticism |
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
Literature and society - England - History - 17th century |
History |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Electronic books. |
England |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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