Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the HouseholdIn a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers "see" on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods. The plays cited include Arden of Faversham, Two Lamentable Tragedies, A Woman Killed With Kindness, and A Yorkshire Tragedy. |
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of the early modern household26 | 26 |
Choose thee a bed and hangings for a chamber | 64 |
Two Lamentable Tragedies128 | 128 |
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actions Alice Alice's Arden Arden of Faversham audience authority becomes Beech's behaviour Cambridge Canterbury CCAL chamber characterises chest city comedies Cleaver complex connection context Crench cultural cupboard deponents describes discussion distinction domestic objects domestic space domestic tragedies doors drama dramaturgy Dudley Fenner dynamics Early Modern England elite emotional evidence Faversham focus Frankford gender gives hall hath household space husband imagination individuals instance intimacy inventories Lamentable Tragedies London marriage master material meanings Merry Merry's metaphorical metonymically mimesis moral moral absolutes Mosby murder narrative nature neighbours Nethersole Nethersole's off-stage offers opening Orlin painted cloths parlour particular physical play play's relation relationship representation represented routines says scene sense servants significance silver spoons spatial stage stools street suggests tension Tenterden testators theatre tion town trope University Press Wendoll Wendoll's wife Woman Killed women Woodnesborough Yorkshire Tragedy