'Household Business' : : Domestic Plays of Early Modern England / / Viviana Comensoli.
The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. '...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Medieval and Tudor Contexts
- 2. Fashioning Marriage Codes: Sixteenth-Century Griseldas
- 3. Domestic Tragedy and Private Life
- 4. ‘Retrograde and Preposterous’: Staging the Witch/Wife Dyad
- 5. Developments in Comedy
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index