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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... material objects that came to redefine the household in early modern England . Yet the literary analyses elaborated herein are equally concerned with the stuff of language , with the material signifiers through which this redefinition ...
... object that had undergone a dramatic material transformation in households of the lower and middling sort in the period immediately preceding his treatise ) should be included , " Some setting it downe for law , that nothing which is ...
... objects . This claim is supported by a growing corpus of scholarship on early modern material culture that has documented , if not celebrated , the period's " new access to a superfluity of material possessions , " offering a " new ...
... material econo- mies in which they are embedded ; for as I have argued above , these two economies are inextricably intertwined.36 Far from remaining aloof from material objects , these subjectivity effects , as Simon Forman recognized ...
... objects and relationships about which language speaks " ; these speaking subjects , material objects , and the historical relationships between them , he argues , should be studied together so that the intercon- nections between them ...
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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