Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home

ISBN-13: 9781108474030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Emma Whipday

Opis

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Recenzje

'Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies provides a fresh perspective on the centrality of household violence to early modern debates about the domestic sphere, as acts of violence put pressure on the ideologies that sustained the moral, political, and religious integrity of the home.' Katherine Gillen, Shakespeare Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies; 1. Home: contesting domestic order in The Taming of the Shrew; 2. Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet; 3. House: staging domestic space in Othello; 4. Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth; Afterword – outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.