In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the domus as well as sex, parenthood, household order, the relationship between home and state, and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood.…mehr
In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of "the domestic," which encompassed the domus as well as sex, parenthood, household order, the relationship between home and state, and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood.
Ariane M. Balizet is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Texas Christian University, USA. Her research on blood, bodies, and gender in early modern drama and contemporary popular culture has appeared or is forthcoming in Early Modern Literary Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, and Women's Studies.
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Introduction 1. The Bleeding Bride: Consummation and The "Fight of Love" in Othello As You Like It and Cymbeline 2. The Bleeding Husband: Cuckoldry and Murder in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women 3. The Bleeding Child: Sons and Daughters in The Spanish Tragedy Henry VI and Titus Andronicus 4. The Bleeding Patient: Honor and Bloodline in The Duchess of Malfi The Maid's Tragedy and El médico de su honra 5. Afterword
Introduction 1. The Bleeding Bride: Consummation and The "Fight of Love" in Othello As You Like It and Cymbeline 2. The Bleeding Husband: Cuckoldry and Murder in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women 3. The Bleeding Child: Sons and Daughters in The Spanish Tragedy Henry VI and Titus Andronicus 4. The Bleeding Patient: Honor and Bloodline in The Duchess of Malfi The Maid's Tragedy and El médico de su honra 5. Afterword
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