'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 geografico: England
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Household business
• ISBN: 1-4426-5801-0; 1-4426-2108-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814498003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England.