Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies

Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 275
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781108614788
ISBN-13 : 1108614787
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by : Emma Whipday

Download or read book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.


Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies Related Books

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Natasha Korda
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-07 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Tamin
Ecocritical Shakespeare
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Dr Dan Brayton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentri
Boston Cooking-school Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics
Language: en
Pages: 834
Authors:
Categories: Cookery
Type: BOOK - Published: 1916 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shakespeare's Nature
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Charlotte Scott
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shakespeare's Nature offers a radically new interpretation of Shakespeare's depiction of nature, revealing the extent to which Shakespeare drew on the language
At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Geraldo U. de Sousa
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, percept