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Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England : the material life of the household / / Catherine Richardson



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Autore: Richardson Catherine (Catherine Teresa) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England : the material life of the household / / Catherine Richardson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
Disciplina: 822.3093559
Soggetto topico: Domestic tragedies (Drama), English - History and criticism
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism
Households - England - History - 16th century
Literature
Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
Literary studies: general
Soggetto non controllato: Arden of Faversham
Two Lamentable Tragedies
Yorkshire Tragedy
court depositions
domestic tragedies
domesticity
households
inventories
morality
wills
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; 1 'My narrow-prying neighbours blab':moral perceptions of the early modern household; 2 'Choose thee a bed and hangings fora chamber; Take with thee everything that hath thy mark': objects and spaces in the early modern house; 3 Arden of Faversham; 4 Two Lamentable Tragedies; 5 A Woman Killed With Kindness; 6 A Yorkshire Tragedy; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers 'see' on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the majority previously unpublished - for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary st
Titolo autorizzato: Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-116-4
1-84779-187-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819600503321
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