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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... particular with the invention of modern subjectivity . Within this critical tradition , as its most recent avatar , Harold Bloom , argues , " the representation of human character or personality remains always the supreme literary value ...
... particular consequences with which this study is concerned are those surrounding women's domestic property relations . The theater had good reason to be preoccupied with such rela- tions , in that the dilemma posed by women's ad hoc ...
... particular focus in this study is on the ways in which Shakespeare configures female subjectivity effects in relationship to objects of property ( including , though not limited to , stage - properties ) . A crucial conceptual framework ...
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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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