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'Household business' : domestic plays of early modern England
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- Summary
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'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 underwro...
'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.
Details
- Creator
- Viviana Comensoli
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1999
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0802082971, 1442621087, 1442658010, 9781442621084, 9780802082978, 9781442658011
- OCLC
- on1082840352, ocn903968586, ocn944178941
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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