Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

Natasha Korda

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2002

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies

Gender and Property in Early Modern England

Natasha Korda

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202519

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About this book

A significant contribution to Shakespeare criticism that integrates feminism, materialist criticism, and legal history to offer an original look at how women's management of household goods became an important site of female struggle and resistance to England's patrilineal property regime. "Korda draws on the best aspects of a variety of recent critical approaches while charting new territory of her own."—Choice

Author / Editor information

Natasha Korda is Associate Professor of English and women's studies at Wesleyan University.

Reviews

"This is a truly excellent book on Shakespeare's treatment of domestic economies, that is, his attention to the domain of household management increasingly seen as the women's sphere in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England."—Jean Howard, author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England

"Korda draws on the best aspects of a variety of recent critical approaches while charting new territory of her own."—Choice

"This exceptional study makes an important and most welcome contribution."—Ben Jonson Journal

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Spelling and Editions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Housekeeping and Household Stuff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Household Kates: Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 3. Judicious Oeillades: Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 4. The Tragedy of the Handkerchief: Female Paraphernalia and the Properties of Jealousy in Othello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5. Isabellas Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Conclusion: Household Property/Stage Property Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 11 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: March 7, 2012
ISBN: 9780812202519