Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 M08 5 - 276 pages Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. |
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... cultural conse- quences " of nascent capitalism.26 The particular consequences with which this study is concerned are those surrounding women's domestic property relations . The theater had good reason to be preoccupied with such rela ...
... cultural preoccupation , " Shakespeare is too often seen as standing aloof from this preoccupation.30 For after all , it is argued , Shakespeare , unlike his contemporaries , wrote no city comedies - the genre most often associated with ...
... cultural history . " 45 Orlin's methodology is thus in a sense the inverse of Comensoli's ; the latter privileges literary ( or more specifically , generic ) form over material history , the former material history over literary form ...
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Contents
Housekeeping and Household Stuff | 15 |
Household Kates Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew | 52 |
Judicious Oeillades Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor | 76 |
The Tragedy of the Handkerchief Female Paraphernalia and the Properties of Jealousy in Othello | 111 |
Isabellas Rule Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure | 159 |
Household PropertyStage Property | 192 |
Notes | 213 |
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