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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... 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 main- tain ...
... marriage and pri- mogeniture in inheritance has long perpetuated the assumption that women had no property rights to speak of in early modern England . Recent femi- nist scholarship , however , drawing on records of actual property ...
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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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