Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England the material life of the household
This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households; and it then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to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. -- .
Print Book, English, 2006
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 235 p. : ill.
9780719065446, 9781847791870, 0719065445, 1847791875
1200828903
Introduction1. ‘My narrow-prying neighbours blab’: moral perceptions of the early modern household2. ‘Choose thee a bed and hangings for a chamber; Take with thee everything that hath thy mark’: objects and spaces in the Early Modern House3. Arden of Faversham4. Two Lamentable Tragedies5. A Woman Killed with Kindness6. A Yorkshire TragedyConclusionAppendix 1. Objects in all urban roomsAppendix 2. Objects in rooms in all Canterbury housesAppendix 3. Objects in Canterbury office-holders’ roomsAppendix 4. Percentage of items in each bracket of total inventoried wealthAppendix 5. Percentage of valued items in each bracket of inventoried wealth -- .
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