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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814498003321

Autore

Comensoli Viviana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1996

ISBN

1-4426-5801-0

1-4426-2108-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England

Disciplina

822.309355

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.