Shakespeare's domestic economies : gender and property in early modern England / Natasha Korda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Korda, Natasha.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.

House furnishings in literature.

Housekeeping in literature.

Property in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on sex role.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on property.

Sex role.

Property.

Local Subjects:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on sex role.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on property.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew , The Merry Wives of Windsor , Othello , and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the "keepers" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life--objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.

Contents:

Housekeeping and household stuff

Household Kates: domesticating commodities in The taming of the shrew

Judicious oeillades: supervising marital property in The merry wives of Windsor

The tragedy of the handkerchief: female paraphernalia and the properties of jealousy in Othello

Isabella's rule: singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-262) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Korda, Natasha. Shakespeare's domestic economies.

ISBN:

0585436274

9780585436272

9780812202519

0812202511

OCLC:

51453260

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.