Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern EnglandShakespeare'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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... century England . " - Jean Howard , author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new ...
... of property . Thus , whereas an early fifteenth - century will states simply , " Also I will that my wyffe have all my housholde [ w ] holy " ( indicating a bequest not of the house itself but of its moveables ) , two centuries ...
... centuries later Henry Swinburne's A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes , the first standard English guide to ecclesiastical probate procedure , specifies that the proper term to be used in bequests of moveables ( such as ...
... centuries of critics have maintained , is with the interior life of the subject , not with the world of goods ; his ... century critic Thomas Rymer excoriated what he termed the " clutter " of Othello : " we have heard of Fortunatus his ...
... century , culminating , perhaps , in Joel Fineman's 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 ...
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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