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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... notion that " the claim of ownership [ i ] s a kind of assertion or story , told within a culture that shapes the story's content and meaning " ) , such claims or stories are thereby rendered unstable , open to interpretation , and ...
... notion of Shakespearean " subjectivity effects " as constituted in a sublimely empty world of words or hollowed - out ( yet nonetheless hallowed ) signifiers , such as " the sound of O in Othello . " 35 My intention here is not to deny ...
Gender and Property in Early Modern England Natasha Korda. the commodity form . The notion of objectification does not , for example , adequately account for the housewife's emerging role as a keeper and care- taker of household stuff ...
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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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