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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... things , in the transfer 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 ) ...
... things classifiable as household stuff points to the increasingly diverse supply of household goods during the period , the tremendous popularity of his treatise points to the increasingly diverse demand for them . Addressed to “ every ...
... things requires a diversification of terms that renders his system of classification inherently unstable . The temporal flux of fashions produces semantic slip- pages in terminology , as in the description of item no . 6 ( " a viall ...
... thing " that exists beyond , and untouched by , the textuality of history and ideology . The shape of things is itself historical , molded in and through discourse . What we grasp of the matter at hand is neither imma- nent nor ...
... things , and the subjects who inhabit them populate an otherwise empty stage . The conception of the Shakespearean stage as a bare , " wooden O , " as Jonathan Gil Harris and I have argued , however , founders under the weight of ...
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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