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Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household

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Description for Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household Hardback. This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to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. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.

In 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 It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the majority previously unpublished - for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. 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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719065446
SKU
9780719065446
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About Catherine Richardson
Catherine Richardson is Lecturer in English and History and Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham -- .

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