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.
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.
Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.
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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.
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.
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