Staging Domesticity - Wall, Wendy; Wendy, Wall
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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care, and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also…mehr

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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care, and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. Wall analyses a wide range of the repertoire, including some now little-known plays, as well as key works in the period by Shakespeare and others. Wall concludes that, rather than dramatisations of only court-based and aristocratic domestic life, literature of the period drew on work from the more common household.

Table of contents:
List of illustrations; Introduction: domestic fantasy; 1. Familiarity and pleasure in the English household guide, 1500-1700; 2. Needles and birches: pedagogy, domesticity and the advent of English comedy; 3. Why does Puck sweep?: Shakespearean fairies and the politics of cleaning; 4. The erotics of milk and live food: or, ingesting early modern Englishness; 5. Tending to bodies and boys: queer physic in Knight of the Burning Pestle; 6. Blood in the kitchen: service, taste and violence in domestic tragedy; Bibliography; Index.

Rich with a detailed account of household practices, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period and analyses a range of the repertoire, including little-known plays, as well as key works by Shakespeare and others.

Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period.
Autorenporträt
Wendy Wall is Associate Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University and a scholar of early modern literature and culture. She is the author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993) and co-editor of the journal Renaissance Drama. Wall has published widely on print technology, voyeurism, women's writing, poetry, housework, and early modern culture.