Shakespeare's domestic tragedies : violence in the early modern home / Emma Whipday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whipday, Emma, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic tragedies (Drama), English.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Domestic tragedies (Drama), English--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies

Home: contesting domestic order in The taming of the shrew

Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet

House: staging domestic space in Othello

Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth

Afterword: homeless: outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University College London, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108474030

1108474039

9781108463300

1108463304

OCLC:

1060185110