Emma Whipday (Newcastle University)

Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108463300
• ISBN-10: 1108463304
• Artikelnr.: 60138472

Autorenporträt

Emma Whipday is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.