Richardson Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England

The material life of the household
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-187-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. ‘My narrow-prying neighbours blab’: moral perceptions of the early modern household
2. ‘Choose thee a bed and hangings for a chamber; Take with thee everything that hath thy mark’: objects and spaces in the Early Modern House
3. Arden of Faversham
4. Two Lamentable Tragedies
5. A Woman Killed with Kindness
6. A Yorkshire Tragedy
Conclusion

Appendix 1. Objects in all urban rooms
Appendix 2. Objects in rooms in all Canterbury houses
Appendix 3. Objects in Canterbury office-holders’ rooms
Appendix 4. Percentage of items in each bracket of total inventoried wealth
Appendix 5. Percentage of valued items in each bracket of inventoried wealth

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson Catherine:
Catherine Richardson is Lecturer in English and History and Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at the University of BirminghamCatherine Richardson is Lecturer in English and History and Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham