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

• Autore: Comensoli Viviana
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999; ©1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.309355
• Soggetto topico: Domestic drama, English - History and criticism; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; Literature and society - England - History - 17th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Medieval and Tudor Contexts -- 2. Fashioning Marriage Codes: Sixteenth-Century Griseldas -- 3. Domestic Tragedy and Private Life -- 4. ‘Retrograde and Preposterous’: Staging the Witch/Wife Dyad -- 5. Developments in Comedy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. '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. At a time when the orthodox view of the family defined it as the foundation of the social order, a number of domestic dramas took a more critical perspective, stressing the contradictions and struggles that attend marriage and the patriarchal family.In addition to well-known domestic dramas as A Woman Killed with Kindness, Arden of Feversham, The Witch of Edmonton, and A Yorkshire Tragedy, Viviana Comensoli analyzes less well-studied plays as A Warning for Fair Women, Two Lamentable Tragedies, and The Late Lancashire Witches. The book also provides an extensive and timely assessment of domestic comedy, demonstrating how plays such as The London Prodigal, The Fair Maid of Bristow, and The Honest Whore (Parts I and II) resist homiletic paradigms in favour of a more dialectical dramaturgy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Household business
• ISBN: 1-4426-2108-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459675203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England.