Shakespeare''s Domestic Tragedies - Violence in the Early Modern Home

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

List of contents

Introduction: Shakespeare's domestic tragedies; 1. Home: contesting domestic order in The Taming of the Shrew; 2. Household: performing domestic relationships in Hamlet; 3. House: staging domestic space in Othello; 4. Neighbourhood: crossing domestic boundaries in Macbeth; Afterword - outside domestic tragedy in King Lear.

About the author

Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.

Summary

This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and the genre of 'domestic tragedy': plays about murder and adultery in ordinary households. In tracing representations of violent homes in early modern culture, Emma Whipday proposes a new way of reading Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Whipday, Emma (Newcastle University) Whipday, Emma (University College London) Whipday, WHIPDAY EMMA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108474030
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47403-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights