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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comensoli, Viviana, author.

Series:

Mental and cultural world of Tudor and Stuart England.

Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic drama, English--History and criticism.

Domestic drama, English.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

England.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-5801-0

1-4426-2108-7

OCLC:

944178941