'Household Business' : Domestic Plays of Early Modern England.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Medieval and Tudor Contexts -- 2 Fashioning Marriage Codes: Sixteenth-Century Griseldas -- 3 Domestic Tragedy and Private Life -- Civility and the Crisis of Order -- A Woman Killed with Kindness -- Arden of Feversham -- A Warning for Fair Women -- A Yorkshire Tragedy -- The Menial Household and the Politics of Plenty -- Two Lamentable Tragedies -- 4 'Retrograde and Preposterous': Staging the Witch/Wife Dyad -- 5 Developments in Comedy -- Prodigal Husbands and Patient Wives -- The Household, the Brothel, and the House of Correction -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

'Household Business'traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its aesthetic configurations in relation to extra-literary discourses and practices that underwrote Renaissance ideologies of private life.

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