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Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies Violence in the Early Modern Home

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies
Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.
Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.
Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies; 1. Home: contesting domestic order in The Taming of the Shrew; 2. Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet; 3. House: staging domestic space in Othello; 4. Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth; Afterword – outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.
Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.

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