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STAGING DOMESTICITY
HOUSEHOLD WORK AND ENGLISH IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA |
| By: |
Wendy Wall, Stephen Orgel, Anne Barton |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£47.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
052103003X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521030038 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture No. 41 |
| Pages: |
308 |
| Description: |
Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period. |
| Synopsis: |
What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. Wall analyses a wide range of the repertoire, including some now little-known plays, as well as key works in the period by Shakespeare and others. Wall concludes that, rather than dramatizations of only court-based and aristocratic domestic life, literature of the period drew on work from the more common household. |
| Illustrations: |
15 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |